After Obtaning A Cs Degree And 16 Years Of Experience In Industry, I Feel Somewhat Confident That I Can Answer Your Programming Questions Correctly. Ask Me Anything

Content Concatenate 2 strings -2 I would like to concatenate 2 strings, I am getting the strings from Microsoft SQL 2008 database, and have to concatenate them in C C datatable share edit close delete flag edited 22 hours ago some hard ass programmer 92.9k 6 100 56 asked Sep 18 at 10:16 Me 5 - 2 16 40 Why don't you make a MySql Database, and use Python instead of C? add a comment start a bounty

Content A full stack developer at work.

Oh, you're "self-taught"? *raises eyebrow skeptically* The internet trinity of knowledge silently judges your claim. Let's be honest—your "independent learning journey" was actually: 1. Copying Stack Overflow answers from Quora 2. Watching 47 YouTube tutorials at 2x speed 3. Frantically Googling error messages at 3AM Nobody becomes a developer in a vacuum. Your real teachers were these three digital uncles giving you that knowing look. The only truly original code you wrote was probably "Hello World"—and even then, you probably checked the syntax twice.

Content When you copypaste the code marked as "solution" on Stack Overflow and it doesn't work (confused unga bunga)

When your entire tech stack is just a collection of 404 errors because the Great Firewall decided that NPM, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and basically every tool you need to do your job is now "unavailable in your region." Just another Tuesday in paradise where you're debugging your VPN more than your actual code. The irony? You're building websites that the rest of the world can access, but you can't access the resources to build them. It's like being a chef who's banned from the grocery store but still expected to cook a five-star meal. Pro tip: Chinese devs have become absolute wizards at mirror repositories and local caching—necessity truly is the mother of invention.

Nothing quite like that brief moment of smooth sailing when you copy-paste some StackOverflow magic into your dirt road of a codebase. Sure, it works... right up until you hit that pothole where your requirements differ slightly from the original question. Then it's back to the bumpy gravel path of debugging your own janky solutions. The real tragedy? Six months from now you'll have completely forgotten which parts you wrote and which parts came from that random post with 47 upvotes. Future you is gonna have a hell of a time figuring out why there's suddenly a perfectly paved section in your otherwise chaotic code desert.