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i just made this right now, after trembling at my first professional correspondence with an old highschool friend.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Psst, don't tell anyone, but we're all dumbasses pretending we know shit

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Stackoverflow and Google go down for a week at the same time, we are all out of a job. And the whole world burns.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone says ChatGPT can't tell if it's wrong. Well neither can I!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the answer is wrong, but nobody realises it's wrong, is it still wrong?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You're hired! Welcome aboard here at the Boeing Company.

[–] Sheltac 10 points 1 year ago

Speak for yourself.

I don’t even pretend.

[–] RojoSanIchiban 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hay! I know things!!!

Like, uh, javascript sucks! Haha, amirite!?

(But no really I hate js so much)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Bruh, at least it ain't Java

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Between JS and VB.NET, give me JS anytime, even if it's ES3.

But modern JS is way better than what it was a decade ago. It's a pretty solid language now.

[–] RojoSanIchiban 3 points 1 year ago

Given I have to work relatively often in legacy VB, I wholeheartedly agree. But I'd kill to be working in C# instead.

Strongly typed is life!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And we never stop pretending.