The toll of a long career in tech

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A two-panel comparison meme showing two different photos of Julian Assange to represent the difference between junior and senior developers. The left panel, labeled 'JUNIOR DEVELOPER,' shows a younger, clean-cut Assange looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression. The right panel, labeled 'SENIOR DEVELOPER,' shows a much older-looking, disheveled Assange with a long white beard, appearing stressed and weary. The meme humorously and hyperbolically suggests that the pressures, stress, and accumulated knowledge of a long career in software development will physically and mentally wear a person down, transforming them from a fresh-faced newcomer into a hardened, tired veteran

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The junior asks 'why?'. The senior asks 'why is this still running and who do we call when it stops?'

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The junior asks 'why?'. The senior asks 'why is this still running and who do we call when it stops?'
Anonymous

The moment a junior merges their first “trivial hotfix,” a senior is created - complete with gray hair, a thousand-yard stare, and encyclopedic knowledge of why the 2004 XML schema must never be touched
Anonymous

The real reason senior developers insist on dark mode isn't eye strain - it's to hide the reflection of what a decade of 'it works on my machine' and emergency hotfixes has done to them
Anonymous

The progression from junior to senior developer: you start optimizing code for performance, but end up optimizing your life for survival. The real technical debt isn't in the codebase - it's the accumulated sleep deficit, the countless production incidents at 3 AM, and the architectural decisions you've had to defend in meetings that could have been emails. By the time you've mastered distributed systems, you've become one yourself: highly available but eventually consistent, with visible signs of data corruption
Anonymous

Junior: “It works.” Senior: “It fails safely, is idempotent, behind a feature flag, canaried, and has a rollback that works even if DNS is on fire.”
Anonymous

Juniors have hair on top; seniors redistribute it downward - optimizing for chins after years of CAP theorem trade-offs
Anonymous

After enough Friday deploys, CAP tradeoffs, and 3am Sev‑1s, the junior who knew all the patterns becomes the senior who knows every cron and PagerDuty escalation by smell - and it shows
ẞonny 5y

That's assenge right? A shame when He looks like that right now
@anatoli26 5y

If the “democratic” western countries imprison journalists, that’s ok, nothing to see here, look elsewhere.. it’s only bad if China, Russia and other geopolitical opponents are accused of doing the same (even if it’s not the case, like “highly likely”)
1. @qwnick 5y
  
  So whats your point? Russia and china should not be accused of doing the same? Dont you think that scale is kinda different?
  
  @anatoli26 5y
  
  the point is double standards.. what's good for me is not good for thee.. silence so loud from human-rights-watch, ACLU, Reporters Without Borders, Committee to Protect Journalists, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media... nobody saying anything about Assange.. 👍👏
  
  @maxgraey 5y
  
  Don't you find it odd that WikiLeaks has never published any copromat regarding Russia? «It is noted that WikiLeaks refused to publish at least 68 gigabytes of data received from a source from the Russian Interior Ministry. According to the publication, in 2014, the BBC and other news agencies reported this data, which included information about Russian military and intelligence interference in Ukraine. However, the information obtained by Wikileaks in 2016 contained twice as much data, but Assange refused to publish it.» And this is not the only case. Assange had a TV show that aired on Russia Today, and many of the alleged leaks are actually attributed to the work of Russian secret services who hacked into the correspondence channels of mostly American diplomats
  
  @anatoli26 5y
  
  Copying it from Wikipedia with sources like BBC & CNN? LOL
  
  @maxgraey 5y
  
  Then what is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eil_1j72LOA
@anatoli26 5y

hypocrisy at its finest
@anatoli26 5y

It would be funny if it weren’t that sad..
@anatoli26 5y

But even if we suppose that all this is true, which is not, but.. following your “logic” any journalist that would have intel on Russia or China provided by western agencies would be ok to be tortured and imprisoned for a decade like Assange?
@anatoli26 5y

And there are no journalists in Russia (not sure about China) treated nowhere near as Assange is treated by the best “democracies” and “press-freedom-loving” western countries
1. @maxgraey 5y
  
  Journalists who act against the government will always be persecuted in any country. In Russia, not only independent journalists are persecuted, but also the opposition. And not just persecuted or imprisoned like Navalny or Mikhail Trepashkin, but physically eliminated as in the case of Boris Nemtsov. So don't tell tales about Russia not being persecuted for oppositional views or information.
  
  @anatoli26 5y
  
  Navalny is a journalist or an opposition? Or maybe both? 🤣🤣🤣
  
  @maxgraey 5y
  
  Он «никому не нужный блоггер» имя которого нельзя называть инаце вся вселенная рухнет 😂😂😂
  
  @sylfn 5y
  
  He is a blogger who no one needs, whose name should not be called otherwise the universe is going to fall (This is English-only char so please add a translation of your text to English)
  
  @maxgraey 5y
  
  It was practically a quote from propagandists in Russia. Addressed personally to this propagandist, who has already cornered himself
  
  @anatoli26 5y
  
  your arguments ended very quickly
  
  @maxgraey 5y
  
  And why else would you respond to a troll who has already shown his stupidity and made a huge number of contradictory judgments. Like all Russian propagandists, you have very poor logic =)
  
  @anatoli26 5y
  
  The troll here is actually you.. the post was about Assange, but you needed to switch the conversation to some shitty western intel agent instigating chaos in Russia to avoid the discussion about the freedom of press violations in the “democracy”- and “freedom”-loving western countries
  
  @qwnick 5y
  
  Ahahaha, said one who switched conversation to offtopic double standarts regarding russia and then said that nobody is persecuted like this in russia (despite journalists and opposition are actually killed). Can you spare us pls?)
  
  @anatoli26 5y
  
  That’s your second account? Or the 1st one? You’re talking so much about paid comments.. looks like you should know a lot about them.. so one is your private account for memes and another one is a paid propaganda job account? Assange is the topic, western hypocrisy and the shame for how he is and was treated it is all about. Read the 1st comment.
  
  @qwnick 5y
  
  Pathetic try to switch theme from kills in russia, you won't fool anyone here. Nice murder cover, btw
  
  @GTRst 5y
  
  GTFO, fucking Kremlin bot!
  
  @anatoli26 5y
  
  butthurt?
@anatoli26 5y

Ask your BBC & bellingcat about this shit: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/journalists-could-face-up-to-14-years-in-prison-for-stories-embarrassing-the-government-282286/
@anatoli26 5y

Navalny was a foreign agent working directly with the western intel agencies to instigate chaos and a color revolution like in so many other places. He was put in jail for inciting mass riots, mainly targeting the underage to cause clashes with riot police so to provide a nice picture of the police brutality against the children. The Russian government was too soft and slow on him, they gave him an real prison sentence only after he violated 3 suspended sentences. An ordinary citizen would be jailed on the 1st violation of suspended sentence.
1. @maxgraey 5y
  
  What a long time it took you to write that. Did you consult with Prigozhin personally? I thought you get these manuals right away 😉
  
  @anatoli26 5y
  
  Looks like this is your day job..
@anatoli26 5y

And BTW, you can’t call someone opposition when their voting results are below the statistical noise threshold...
@qwnick 5y

And instead of protecting Assange, you protecting russia, srly? How much are you get per comment?)
1. @GTRst 5y
  
  15 ₽ or 0.21 $ or 0.17 € Great success!
  
  @anatoli26 5y
  
  Ohh you even got some numbers?! That’s very typical for the newbie/junior trolls to become irritated quickly when they go out of arguments and start to insult others...

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