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A Satirical Guide to Faking Programmer Expertise
DevCommunities Post #3330, on Jun 25, 2021 in TG

A Satirical Guide to Faking Programmer Expertise

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This image is a screenshot of a tweet from user Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) that provides a satirical guide on 'How to fake being a programmer'. The tweet lists six quotes intended to mimic things a stereotypical or fraudulent programmer might say. The quotes are: ''haha Windows is bad'', ''php is more like phpepsi'', ''when you were 12 I was coding in basic'', ''I'm not like other programmers'', ''Stackoverflow comes to me for help'', and ''I don't use an IDE because word 2007 has all the functionality I need''. The humor lies in the blend of recognizable developer tropes and escalating absurdity. It satirizes common gatekeeping attitudes, platform elitism, and the ridiculous claims people might make to sound knowledgeable. The final point about using Microsoft Word 2007 as an IDE is the ultimate punchline, as it's a completely inappropriate tool for coding, making the entire persona transparently fake to any real developer

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick My favorite is the Word 2007 IDE. It really highlights the importance of spell check when writing Python, especially with all those squiggly lines under your variable names
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    My favorite is the Word 2007 IDE. It really highlights the importance of spell check when writing Python, especially with all those squiggly lines under your variable names

  2. Anonymous

    Anyone can dunk on Windows; the real litmus test is explaining how to make a distributed saga idempotent across cross-region deployments - Word 2007 suddenly doesn’t have that template

  3. Anonymous

    The real sign of a senior developer isn't knowing when Word 2007 can replace an IDE - it's knowing exactly which legacy system in production is still using it as a critical dependency because 'it just works' and nobody wants to touch that migration

  4. Anonymous

    The real tell isn't using Word 2007 as an IDE - it's that they haven't upgraded to Word 2010's superior syntax highlighting for their YAML configs. But seriously, we've all met this person: they peaked when they discovered Vim macros in 2003, still think 'real programmers' use Notepad, and somehow believe their Stack Overflow rep of 47 makes them Linus Torvalds. The irony? Actual senior engineers are too busy shipping features to care what editor you use, know that Windows WSL2 is perfectly viable, and have enough self-awareness to realize that everyone - yes, everyone - copies from Stack Overflow. The 'I'm not like other programmers' line is particularly chef's kiss: it's the developer equivalent of 'I'm a nice guy,' and just as much of a red flag in code reviews

  5. Anonymous

    Anyone can dunk on Windows and PHP; the senior test is whether your rollback beats Ctrl+Z - Word 2007 belongs in the postmortem, not the IDE

  6. Anonymous

    Boasting BASIC at 12 while debugging via Word's Track Changes - the origin story of every unmaintainable VBA monolith we've refactored

  7. Anonymous

    Architect heuristic: if their opener is 'Windows bad' and 'StackOverflow comes to me,' give them read-only - last time they tried to push a .docx from Word 2007 into main

  8. @grandpa_the_kid 5y

    I use IO pins of the processor to tell him what to do, living in 3021 (or 1951, don't really know))

  9. @exhausted 5y

    sent to saved messages 🥲

  10. @Dexconv 5y

    I used dot and lines on paper as 0 and 1 to write my code you normies

    1. @sylfn 5y

      and i used only lines, but they sometimes were not straight

  11. @qwnick 5y

    -> Windows is bad -> Use Word 2007 instead IDE

    1. @clockware 5y

      Well he didn't say Microsoft's bad, did he?)

    2. @sylfn 5y

      you can use paint as java ide (not joking)

      1. @prirai 5y

        paint ide 😇

  12. @prirai 5y

    https://ms-paint-i.de/

  13. @prirai 5y

    Did I ever lie to you?

  14. @AlihatorU 5y

    Is Windows not bad? Is php good? Is IDE really better than code editors?

    1. @busy_hedgehog 5y

      Fake programmer detected

      1. @AlihatorU 5y

        Bruh

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