The Duality of a Developer: C vs. CSS

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A 'Swole Doge vs. Cheems' (or 'Buff Doge vs. Crying Cheems') meme comparing the perceived difficulty of two different programming tasks. On the left, a muscular, confident-looking Shiba Inu (Swole Doge) is labeled 'Me' and is associated with the text 'Centralize STDOUT in C'. This represents a task that, while sounding complex to outsiders, is relatively straightforward for a systems programmer. On the right, a small, sad, crying Shiba Inu (Cheems) is labeled 'You' and is paired with the text 'Centralize div in HTML'. This represents the notoriously frustrating and often counter-intuitive task of centering an element in CSS/HTML, a common pain point for even experienced developers. The humor lies in the ironic inversion of difficulty: a low-level systems task is portrayed as a show of strength, while a seemingly simple web layout task is a source of weakness and despair

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Centering a div is the real 'halting problem' of web development. You think you've solved it, but then a new browser comes out and proves you wrong

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Centering a div is the real 'halting problem' of web development. You think you've solved it, but then a new browser comes out and proves you wrong
Anonymous

I can implement a lock-free queue in C between stand-up and coffee, yet aligning a div dead-center still feels like negotiating CSS politics with four rendering engines and three historical grudges
Anonymous

After 15 years in the industry, I've shipped distributed systems handling millions of requests per second, but I still Google 'how to center a div' every single time. Meanwhile, junior devs are out here casually using printf('\t\t\tHello World\n') and calling it centered
Anonymous

Centering output in C is just arithmetic; centering a div requires arithmetic, flexbox, three Stack Overflow tabs, and an apology to the box model
Anonymous

After 20 years in the industry, I can write a kernel module to redirect stdout through a custom buffer with signal handling, but I still Google 'how to center a div' every single time. The real joke? Both tasks are trivial once you know the incantation, but only one has seventeen different 'correct' solutions depending on which browser version your PM's cousin is using
Anonymous

I can wire up epoll and a lock‑free ring buffer in C before standup, but centering a login modal still has me choosing between flex, grid, or the ancient translate(-50%, -50%) ritual and praying Quirks Mode isn’t enabled
Anonymous

Redirect stdout in C: dup2. Center a div: convene Flex vs Grid, consult the Box Alignment spec, and pray Safari doesn’t ship a regression
Anonymous

C: integer math + printf widths. CSS: vendor prefixes, !important, and sacrificing a goat to the box model gods
Alexey 4y

margin: auto;
Alexey 4y

align: center
Alexey 4y

Можно сделать инлайн блоком и текстовыми стилями или некоторыми современными
1. Alexey 4y
  
  Лет 7 на css не писал 😅
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  please use english in this chat tr: you can use inline block and text styles or some modern (wtf is this) didnt write in css for 7 years
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  please write English or provide a translation to your text. (note to self: add /rules to bot so I don't have to manually write this every time)
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  https://t.me/devs_chat/47888
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  bad connection, wrote that before you lol
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  how can it be that bad
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  idk, had some connection hiccup just now
  
  @feskow 4y
  
  new pr!!!
  
  dev_meme 4y
  
  Can i get a link on GitHub for researches?
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  @riedlers_dev_bot look into its description
  
  dev_meme 4y
  
  Thanks
  
  @newmankrr 4y
  
  even better: detect cyrillic characters and send the rules automatically
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  NO
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  lmao how is this always suggested 🤦
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  Never do that! Cyrillic is not violating the rules Даже не думай об этом! Кириллица не нарушает правила, что она тебе сделала?
  
  @newmankrr 4y
  
  I mean if it doesn't include the translation
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  translation can be sent next message
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  also stickers and media files with russian text cant be detexted
  
  @feskow 4y
  
  I mean yeah, but must include English translation
  
  @newmankrr 4y
  
  you didn't provide the translation for the last part of the sentence tho... disappointed
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  translation should not be exact word-by-word but it should contain same meaning and i was too lazy to open translator to check how to tr correctly last part
  
  @feskow 4y
  
  He did not provide translation only for the last part of complex sentence (последнюю часть сложного предложения), but he generally gave the idea in the translation
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  how would you translate "ну что она тебе сделала?"
  
  dev_meme 4y
  
  So what did she(Cyrillic) do to you?
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  looks like the meaning is gone
  
  dev_meme 4y
  
  True
  
  @feskow 4y
  
  what did it do to you? or it didn't do anything to deserve it or it hadn't done anything bad for you
  
  dev_meme 4y
  
  2nd translation is great
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  3rd one is actually "Она тебе ничего плохого не сделала!"
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  and it differs from "что она тебе сделала?"
  
  @QutePoet 4y
  
  She didn't mean to do any heck for you.
  
  @kitbot256 4y
  
  Уоu аге иот шгоиg
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  ох схит хов цан и реад тхис?
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  how to read my eyes are in blood now
2. @beton_kruglosu_totchno 4y
  
  what dialect of the only laguage allowed here without translation is that?
@mozilaip 4y

> Centralize STDOUT is C What dialect is it in first place?
@sashakity 4y

margin: auto; max-width: 1024px; or even better: .wrapper { display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; } .content { max-width: 1024px; }
@beton_kruglosu_totchno 4y

>is C
@SamsonovAnton 4y

So, what about centering STDOUT in C?
@SamsonovAnton 4y

What about centering arbitrary data (groups of variables) on a terminal of arbitrary width? PS. Using curses does not count.
1. @RiedleroD 4y
  
  you can just read the terminal width from envvars
  
  @SamsonovAnton 4y
  
  The catch is that one cannot simply ask printf to center the entire output. Instead, it is required to sprintf to some buffer (which size should be known in advance, which is not the case in general) and only then to center that on screen with printf. To make that a generic function, one needs to rely on va-args, which may not be available.
  
  @sashakity 4y
  
  this is nonsensical
2. dev_meme 4y
  
  It's very easy.
@SamsonovAnton 4y

So, HTML is actually superior than C even in such a basic task!
@SamsonovAnton 4y

A complete system freeze is one of the most stable states of a computing device.
@dsmagikswsa 4y

😂
@QutePoet 4y

You see this? No code example of centralised text in C!

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