The Definitive 2-Hour Masterclass on Creating a Folder

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A screenshot of a YouTube video suggestion. The video's thumbnail shows the iconic yellow folder icon from Windows 10 with the text 'New folder' highlighted in blue, indicating it's being renamed. The video is titled 'How to create a folder in Windows 10' and is presented by a user with a Minecraft 'Enderman' avatar. The key element of the joke is the video's absurd length, displayed in the bottom right corner as 2:00:32 (two hours and thirty-two seconds). This meme satirizes the existence of overly detailed and unnecessarily long tutorials for incredibly simple, fundamental computer tasks. For experienced tech professionals, the humor is amplified by the contrast between this two-hour ordeal and the instant it takes to perform the action using a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+N) or a command line (`mkdir`), highlighting the absurdity of such content

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Two hours to create a folder? In that time I could write a shell script to do it, containerize it, set up a CI/CD pipeline, and then realize I just needed to type 'mkdir'

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Two hours to create a folder? In that time I could write a shell script to do it, containerize it, set up a CI/CD pipeline, and then realize I just needed to type 'mkdir'
Anonymous

Two-hour “New Folder” tutorial: 5 minutes on Ctrl+Shift+N, 115 on a whiteboard debate about whether the folder deserves its own microservice or belongs in the monolithic desktop
Anonymous

This is the same developer who needs a 3-hour meeting with 12 stakeholders to decide if the new microservice should return 200 or 201 on successful POST
Anonymous

When your sprint retrospective reveals that 96,000 engineers spent 2 hours learning to create a folder, you realize the real technical debt isn't in your codebase - it's in your organization's assumption that 'basic computer literacy' is a universal constant. This is why we can't have nice things like assuming developers know how to use their operating system, and why every internal wiki eventually becomes a 47-page guide on 'How to Open a Terminal.'
Anonymous

Only in enterprise Windows does “New folder” warrant a two-hour tutorial - five minutes of mkdir, then an hour fifty-five negotiating NTFS ACLs, AD/GPO inheritance, and a naming convention nobody will follow
Anonymous

The prerequisite training before your COBOL team gets folder access on that Windows Server relic
Anonymous

Two hours to create “New folder” - peak ClickOps; somewhere a PM just marked “improved onboarding” as done
Deleted Account 5y

"Hello friends"
@sofuckingbored 5y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QZcOugHQ6s&ab_channel=kriper2004
1. @sany_nikonov 5y
  
  This is the real guide
@sofuckingbored 5y

dat guy just stoled another guy video lmao😤
1. @sany_nikonov 5y
  
  +++++++
@TeslyaMax 5y

Average comp sci college be like
@Bombjacket 5y

is it even real
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  The best part: it is
@Bombjacket 5y

wth lol
@Bombjacket 5y

what do they tell in this much time
@Bombjacket 5y

how to code windows
@unknown24907 5y

how long does video about creating folder in linux take
1. @nuntikov 5y
  
  15hrs
  
  @unknown24907 5y
  
  on ubuntu
  
  @biskwiq 5y
  
  30 minutes my dude https://youtu.be/PQgyW10xD8s
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  Hey, that's the one I followed to install arch :) Didn't think derek was that famous
2. Deleted Account 5y
  
  actually, that windows guide showas how to install wsl and make it from there
@Picross3D 5y

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