The Digital Archaeologist's Despair

Remember the dark ages of programming? Two devs claim they've time-traveled, but when asked "when?" they decide to ask someone nearby for help. The punchline hits when they ask how to center a div (the eternal CSS nightmare) and get told to "look it up in the CSS manual." The final panel reveals this happened "before ChatGPT and StackOverflow" - back when we had to read actual documentation instead of copy-pasting solutions. Truly barbaric times. Some say senior devs still have nightmares about physical reference books.

The holy war of software development methodologies in one perfect image. TDD disciples preach the gospel of "write tests first, code later" with religious fervor, silently judging from their moral high ground. Meanwhile, error-driven developers (aka the rest of us mortals) are out here building features and fixing bugs in real-time like digital firefighters. "My code works? I have no idea why, but I'm not touching it again." The irony? Both approaches eventually lead to the same stack overflow questions at 2 AM.

Content THIS IS ffmpeg. It is an incredibly fast and versatile audio editor that can do a myriad of complex functions. COOL. HOW DO WE USE IT? NO IDEA. Search on Stack Overflow for someone who needs the exact same thing as you do, and copy the answer.

Content When you can't find the right Stack Overflow answer NEW I'm limited by the technology of my time

Content Artak Kalantarian 3rd Founder at peaceofmind.ai - UC Berkeley SkyDeck Pad-13... 5d Edited g At one of my first interviews I was asked to reverse a singly linked list. The conversation went this way: Interviewer: "How would you reverse a singly linked list" Me: "Would stick the items into a stack, and pop them out and link them again" Interviewer: "But the linked list can be infinite" Me: "Would stick the items into an infinite stack" Interviewer: "Where would you find the infinite stack?" Me: "Exactlv at the same place where vou found the infinite linked list" I can never resist a good joke. In this case it went well. 08 602 18 comments

Content That one guy on StackOverflow having the exact same Problem as me 9 ears ago