That Is Why Programmers Get Paid

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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.

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute HORROR of having non-tech friends peek at your search history! 😱 There you are, innocently Googling "how to kill child of fork" like the responsible process manager you are, and suddenly everyone thinks you're plotting a tiny-tined murder spree! For the blissfully unaware: in programming, particularly in Unix/Linux systems, a "fork" creates a "child process" from a "parent process." And sometimes those children need to be... *dramatic whisper* TERMINATED. It's not murder, it's MEMORY MANAGEMENT, KAREN! 💅 The FBI agent monitoring my searches is probably on stress leave by now. "I swear officer, I was just trying to clean up zombie processes!"

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Content Programmers before internet I will go to the library and read books until I discover a solution Programmers now The stack overflow code doesn't work