I once had a junior calling me in a panic because he didn't know how to quit nano. NANO!
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Bottom right has always happened, just create bugs yourself and then fix them to keep your job
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I once had an intern attempt to install sudo using NPM and when that didn't work he asked ChatGPT "Why can't I install sudo from NPM?" while I'm trying to explain it to him.
He was smart, but somehow knew very little about commercial computers despite being on the verge of getting his master's in computer science.
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Hey buddy, if I fix one bug and cause three more, it's called job security. Where's my medal?
I have to say, I'm pretty sure those guys were in the past too.
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It's 2025 and I have no idea what the current way to center something is. Then again, my job is that of a backend engineer so it's rare I'm outputting anything that isn't a log statement. They can pry tables and center tags from my cold, aging hands.
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One of my favourite game dev stories from the 1980s is the story of Elite. It was a game people thought couldn't be made. Most devs thought hardware wasn't powerful enough and publishers thought it wouldn't be fun enough.
It was one of the first properly 3D open world video games ever made. I think when it released it sold nearly as many copies as there were home computers that could run it.
In order to make the game small enough to fit on a cassette tape they had to ditch basic and program the entire game, world in assembly.
There's a fantastic video about it here: https://youtu.be/lC4YLMLar5I
the game small enough to fit on a cassette tape
Holy hell, that is OLD old. We're talking about the beginnings of digital time here. Had the first web constellations formed yet? How fast did you crank your CPU?
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I feel very confident in my understanding of random 8 bit CPUs and their support chips, but asking me to center a div is like this xkcd.
I’ve never understood why people are so intimidated by tar
It is "backwards" from some other commands
usually you run copy/rsync/link from source to destination, but with tar the destination (tarball) is specified before the source (directory/files).
That, and the flags not needing dashes always just throws me for a loop.
And the icing on the cake is that I don't use tar for tarring that often, so I lose all muscle memory (untaring a tgz or tar.bz2 is frequent enough that I can usually get that right at least...).
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tar -eXtract Ze Vucking File
Thanks! This will definitely help me to remember it from now on.
Me 6 months from now:
tar -EZVF
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It is sticky and pretty much ruins clothes.
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The fact that the div center search needs a year on it got me lol
Loving my nearly frontend free development life. I use Stackoverflow or Google maybe 2-3 times a month these days, not sure if I qualify for the upper row :(
Yeah OK, but back then, an office suite was like 500 LOC.
People have been hm unable to quit vim since before I was born.
I swore up & down that I'd learn at least two ways of exiting VIM. I even went through basic training to learn all the shortcuts, but it interfered with my regular workflow, so I dropped it "for a bit". It's been a year and I can't remember a damn thing.
Some say they are still trapped there, to this day...
May the :helpgrep be ever on their side
I'm 2 from the top, 3 from the bottom.
my friend there are only 2 rows
I read that as he created a game in assembly, and can't quit vim. Whether technically or sexually is up to OP to say. And what's the game?
Hey now. Searching stack overflow circia 2011 to 2018 was an Art. You had to know enough to find the correct question that wasn't deleted because a mod thought it was a duplicate of another question
After a while you got know which stack overflow questions were a waste of time, and you used that knowledge for years.
Also to find the actual correct answer three comments down because the one that was voted highest worked, but was actually a really shit way to do the thing being asked
I often found the correct answers in the comments of an answer
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Love the shoutout to Margaret Hamilton
The missing middle section was documentation and QA getting worse
Well yea, when you train the entire 2nd generation of coders on a book that is “For dummies” what did you expect?
Don't forget the third gen's JavaScript: The Good Parts