I Mean It Is What It Is

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3 months ago 221,850 views 0 shares

I Mean It Is What It Is

programming-memes, stackoverflow-memes, google-memes, debugging-memes, developer-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Let's be honest, our job titles should just be "Professional Stack Overflow Researchers." The gap between what we claim to know and what we actually Google daily is the industry's best-kept open secret. Four years of computer science education just to perfect the art of crafting the perfect search query. "How to center div" for the 600th time this week? Yep, that's going in the search bar. The real programming skill isn't memorizing syntax—it's knowing exactly which error message to copy-paste into Google. Our IDE is just the middleman between us and our true coding environment: Chrome's incognito mode so colleagues can't see how basic our questions really are.

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