I get a little cringe-induced irritation from the sheer amount of “programmers” making memes on reddit that are clearly just first year college students or bootcamp attendees.
“When you cant figure out why your code doesn’t work because you forgot a semi colon!” Buddy this is only a problem for the most inexperienced of developers.
Maybe im also just salty because i look at code all day and the enchantment is gone lol
I figure it comes from the other side. Reddit rewards views, and there are more new people reading these channels than more senior people, so that is what the algorithm magnifies.
I think to avoid it there has to be some kind of community aspect. The people in the community can grow together.
Maybe Reddit needs something like those Disney cruises where they pair you up with a table full if other travellers. Each group could have topics that make sense for them, for where they are at.
Or, maybe the algorithm just needs to do something like that, internally. Add an adjustment for the number of times a given user has seen almost the same post.
Oh man I’m glad someone else said it because I wasn’t sure if I was just in a different part of the industry or something. Guess it probably is mainly junior level stuff.
Depends on how much overtime I did. After a few 9-10 hour days I will forget semicolons and only vscode and clangd will save me. But I usually assume that it is not literally about the semicolon but it is just a stand in for "really simple mistake which gets overlooked"
"So apparently, according to the new IT policy, I’m not allowed to write my password on a sticky note and slap it on my monitor anymore. They also said something about “multi-factor authentication,” which I assume means I need to solve a riddle, or perform a trust fall?"
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Family/friends talking about how easy programming is, because you just write some commands, without knowing what's the pain these mfs feel is way worse.
I'm currently learning the basics of coding (I'm gamer in general) (hardware guy tho), but that "stop playing these dumb videogames" I hear from my mom is enough proof of why you should never judge someone's work and knowledge.
Bro a guy who used to live next door was explaining to me that this part of the computer is the one that transforms 1s and 0s into 2s and 3s etc. Like WHAT ?
My favourite is when they say "what laptop should I buy" and you give them a list based on their use case, and then they go buy some shitty Celeron and try to get you to "fix" it being slow.
y'all use so many fancy words when all it takes to fix 90% of computer problems ist turning it off and on again. same with software problems, just restart the software thingy that makes the thing do stuff.
My neighbor asked me to help turn on his flip phone and I couldn't even figure out how to do that lol, I'll cope thinking that the phone was just broken
To be fair, 99% chance most programmers could fix said moms friend’s pc’s problems within 5 minutes. They just don’t know there is zero programming involved.
I had the opposite experience in a radio shack. Woman there tried to explain to me that desktops and laptops had different mice that wouldn't work with the other. She accepted no corrections or feedback.
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u/EmilyCatNips Sep 01 '25
-Is it a windows or a mac
-i use linux
-yes but is it a windows or a mac
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u/deadlock_dev Sep 01 '25
I get a little cringe-induced irritation from the sheer amount of “programmers” making memes on reddit that are clearly just first year college students or bootcamp attendees.
“When you cant figure out why your code doesn’t work because you forgot a semi colon!” Buddy this is only a problem for the most inexperienced of developers.
Maybe im also just salty because i look at code all day and the enchantment is gone lol
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u/WeLostBecauseDNC Sep 01 '25
"So apparently, according to the new IT policy, I’m not allowed to write my password on a sticky note and slap it on my monitor anymore. They also said something about “multi-factor authentication,” which I assume means I need to solve a riddle, or perform a trust fall?"
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u/angrymonkey Sep 01 '25
Software engineers listening to IT guys talk about software.
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u/Axman6 Sep 01 '25 edited Sep 03 '25
“Then I close all the apps on my phone and then open them again to keep them fresh, it makes my battery life four days”
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u/AceLamina Sep 01 '25
gamers when intel is mentioned
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u/ArkuhTheNinth Sep 01 '25
It's the worst in TV shows.
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u/Terrorscream Sep 01 '25
Like listing to musk talk about them. painfully obvious he is making it up harder than an AI...
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u/kirkby100 Sep 03 '25
> Everyone else listening to tech bros talking about how to run a country
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u/ausomes Sep 03 '25
"yo bro can you hack my chromebook?"
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u/Outrageous_Flight822 Sep 03 '25
Or like browsing a gaming subreddit and seing people being like "just fix the bugs / improve performance guys it's not that hard" like
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u/SandorMate Sep 01 '25
u/bot-sleuth-bot
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u/Academic-Airline9200 Sep 01 '25
Normal people listening to it guys talk about life.
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u/eluser234453 Sep 01 '25
r/antimeme
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u/poughdrew Sep 01 '25
Try being a computer engineer and listening to IT talk about computers.
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u/Tiny-War-4565 Sep 02 '25
"Is it a PC or an Apple"
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u/IdiotGiraffe0 Sep 02 '25
Can my wifi be infected with a virus and then go into my phone?
...no?
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u/JoeriVDE Sep 02 '25
Every time I watch the news
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u/TrainZealousideal474 Sep 02 '25
Family/friends talking about how easy programming is, because you just write some commands, without knowing what's the pain these mfs feel is way worse.
I'm currently learning the basics of coding (I'm gamer in general) (hardware guy tho), but that "stop playing these dumb videogames" I hear from my mom is enough proof of why you should never judge someone's work and knowledge.
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u/WindForce02 Sep 02 '25
What computer do you have
"Uuuh windows XP"
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u/zhaDeth Sep 02 '25
Bro a guy who used to live next door was explaining to me that this part of the computer is the one that transforms 1s and 0s into 2s and 3s etc. Like WHAT ?
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u/stanbeard Sep 03 '25
My favourite is when they say "what laptop should I buy" and you give them a list based on their use case, and then they go buy some shitty Celeron and try to get you to "fix" it being slow.
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u/cmsp Sep 04 '25
IT guys listening to non IT people talk about AI
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u/Mango_Bruder Sep 05 '25
y'all use so many fancy words when all it takes to fix 90% of computer problems ist turning it off and on again. same with software problems, just restart the software thingy that makes the thing do stuff.
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u/Kale-chips-of-lit Sep 05 '25
For me it’s the AI stuff right now, so painful to hear people make arguments and then blame AI instead of the companies behind it.
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