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Content Giulio Carrara 3rd Software Engineer 1d Dear recruiters, if you are looking for: - Java, Python, PHP - React, Angular - PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB - AWS, S3, EC2, ECS, EKS - nix system administration - Git and Cl with TDD - Docker, Kubernetes That's not a Full Stack Developer. That's an entire IT department. Yours truly 8,801 391 comments

Content Senior Oops Engineer ReinH 1 am a full stack engineer which means if you give me one more task my stack will overflow 12:56 PM 22819 Buffer

Content Why should I hire a software engineer if I can just copy and paste code from Stack Overflow? Jessica Su, CS PhD student at 94 Stanford Answered Dec 28 Upvoted by Rupak Hattikudur, Software Engineer LT Infotech and Terry Lambert, Senior Software Engineer: Novell, Artisoft, IBM, Array Netw... It's still worth the money. The breakdown is Copying code from StackOverflow: 1 Knowing which code to copy from StackOverflow: 100000year

Seeking the answer to parsing HTML with regex is like waiting for divine wisdom that never comes. 7.5*10^6 years later (that's longer than Earth has existed), and the computer's still thinking... because there IS no good answer. The punchline? Using regex to parse HTML is fundamentally flawed. HTML is a context-free grammar while regex is a regular expression - mathematically incapable of handling nested structures properly. It's like trying to eat soup with a fork - theoretically possible if you're desperate enough, but there are proper tools for that (like actual HTML parsers). The comic brilliantly captures the eternal wait for a solution that doesn't exist. Some problems in programming aren't meant to be solved - they're meant to be avoided entirely.

That awkward silence when someone assumes your years of experience translate to actual competence. Ten years of programming and still googling how to center a div or exit Vim. Some of us have just been making the same mistakes with increasing confidence for a decade. It's not the years in the code, it's the code in the years.