A Lifelong Passion for Finding Bugs, Literally and Figuratively

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A two-panel, anime-style meme comparing the interests of a person at two different ages. The first panel, labeled 'ME AT 7:', shows a young anime boy with grey hair holding a butterfly net that has captured an insect. The caption below reads, '"GUYS CHECK OUT THIS COOL BUG I FOUND"'. The second panel, labeled 'ME AT 17:', shows a blonde anime girl excitedly pointing at a computer monitor which displays lines of code in a dark-themed editor. A specific line is highlighted, indicating a discovery. The caption is identical: '"GUYS CHECK OUT THIS COOL BUG I FOUND"'. The meme is a pun on the word 'bug', humorously illustrating the transition from a child's fascination with insects to a teenage programmer's excitement at discovering a software bug

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The thrill of finding a cool bug is timeless. The only difference is that at 17, you can't just put it in a jar and forget about it; you have to write a regression test

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The thrill of finding a cool bug is timeless. The only difference is that at 17, you can't just put it in a jar and forget about it; you have to write a regression test
Anonymous

Seven-year-old me: beetle in a glass jar. Thirty-seven-year-old me: zombie thread in a Kubernetes pod - turns out we never outgrow bug collecting, we just pay for more expensive containers
Anonymous

The only profession where finding bugs after 10 years of experience still makes you excited enough to show everyone - though now it's because you finally found the root cause of that intermittent production issue that's been haunting your on-call rotation for months, not because it has pretty wings
Anonymous

The real character development arc isn't going from junior to senior - it's realizing that at 17 YoE you're still just as excited about finding bugs, except now they're race conditions in production instead of ladybugs in the garden. The butterfly net gets replaced with gdb, but the dopamine hit of 'I found it!' remains unchanged. Senior engineers don't lose their enthusiasm; they just redirect it toward increasingly esoteric edge cases that make their teammates question their sanity
Anonymous

Childhood bugs were finite and catchable; now they're recursive heisenbugs that vanish under observation
Anonymous

From butterfly net to Jira: the cool bug I found now only reproduces at p99 during cross‑region failover when retries ignore backoff; turn on debug and it vanishes - classic Heisenbug
Anonymous

At 7 a bug earned me a jar; at 17 it earns me a Jira, a SEV‑2, and permanent ownership of the module I didn’t know existed
@pnlt_s 2y

Me at 27: "Guys i fixed this bug i found 10 years ago"
1. @SamsonovAnton 2y
  
  "Me at 7" ≈ boy "Me at 17" = girl "Me ar 27" = ?
  
  @pnlt_s 2y
  
  a ghost
  
  @NiKryukov 2y
  
  Me ar 27 = rawr :3
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  enbie
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  Attack helicopter
  
  @Diotost 2y
  
  I imagine an AI powered drone weapon that looks like Chrysalis from Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker.
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  Literally 😂
  
  @azizhakberdiev 2y
  
  smb whose pronouns are he/her (or smth?)
  
  诗音 shine 2y
  
  weaponized helicopter Can find better option than this.
  
  @ishyfishy 2y
  
  he/him => she/her => was/were 🙃
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  not funny, man. not funny
@lord_desecrator 2y

Boy became a femboy
1. @pnlt_s 2y
  
  he just got hired at software engineering position
2. @purplesyringa 2y
  
  the person who made that meme is trans btw
  
  @lord_desecrator 2y
  
  > she/her > rewrites stdlib based👍
@SergioEremin 2y

why did I read "me at" as "meat"? now I cannot un-see it
@azizhakberdiev 2y

https://www.quora.com/Can-my-gender-pronouns-be-he-her
dev_meme 2y

MEAT 7
@Saeid025 2y

Are we going to talk about how he turned to a femboy?
1. @purplesyringa 2y
  
  That's not a femboy, that's a girl
  
  @Saeid025 2y
  
  Man, even worse, bro gender swapped
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  That's not a nice way to talk about trans folk
  
  @Saeid025 2y
  
  Man what is this taking me into 😐 I didn't mean it in any disrespectful way 😑
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  Do trans exist? I ve never seen them
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  open your eyes then >:P
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  I mean, do they exist irl? Everyone can be everyone on the net, but... irl?
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  I do exist but I'm erased in my shitty country
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  yes, I met some. they're not (usually) visible in public transport and such
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  Oh, okay, so they are that mystic... Or maybe showing everyone your wiener is not polite? Now I get it
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  they have to hide it in public because they get beaten up for it, unfortunately
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  not their weiner, their transness I mean
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  The what
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  The impolite part is reducing trans people to their genitals
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  Oh, I'm sorry, but what else?
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  Like... presentation? not feeling shitty about one's body? gender euphoria?
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  I don't get it
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  You ever felt dissociation?
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  Never, I know what it is, but I never felt it
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  I just want to be a normal girl WHY THE FUCK WAS I BORN IN SUCH SCREWED BODY
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  Ah, now I understand So, it works like everyone could be everyone, and you can discover their gender only through talking?
  
  @Artkash 2y
  
  It seems so? I mean, why do you need to know someone's gender (for any reason but identification in indirect dialogue)? It can be confusing if you misgender someone accidentally, but this is easily fixable and people who get annoyed at honest mistakes are shitty and unhelpful. Other than that, just... don't be a stubborn ass and do this on purpose and that's it, you won't have any other problem with a person whose preferences on what to call them you don't get.
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  I am literally trans
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  I've never seen you too, so I can't trust
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  my gf is trans and she exists irl (one meter away)
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  My gf is PDP-11 and is literally a great personality, how will you check it?
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  I won't, lmao why would I need to?
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  Maybe coz you don't believe?
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  why do you think so
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  So you believe everything on the net?
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  I don't "believe", I store in my memory "Someone said that <...>" about people selationship, and I don't need this to be proved in any way
  
  @Diotost 2y
  
  Does she attend Computer Obsolescence Prevention Society meetings? https://samandmax.fandom.com/wiki/The_C.O.P.S.?so=search
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  oh congrats on that new name
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  ?
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  transistors
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  trans sisters
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  what about other siblings
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  trans brothers
@hotsadboi 2y

man i sure do love the rule that every programming related community sooner or later devolves into trans dispute is there an objective reason for that?
1. @lawenard 2y
  
  Difficult childhood often results in great abilities of conquering difficult fields like programming
  
  @hotsadboi 2y
  
  i don't think that this is THAT decisive. if so, places like kosovo would be soon-to-be-silicon-valley-two. this also goes for trans people, i don't think the correlation is that big. pulling it out of my ass tho, i don't have a lot of experience talking to trans folks
  
  @lawenard 2y
  
  If you drop trans from "who becomes a programmer" question it would still look like a difficult childhood is there most of the time. But "difficult childhood" is too broad of a term, and you pointed that out too. I honestly don't know how to describe the kind of difficulties that are so often tied to success in programming but I mean it's not like "living in Gaza sector" kind of difficult childhood
2. @purplesyringa 2y
  
  I think it's intrinsically linked to autism. Me, my gf, lots of my friends in STEM are all autistic or otherwise neurodivergent. And then trans people are also more likely to be autistic. So there's that.
  
  @hotsadboi 2y
  
  not to be rude but that sounds like non-edgy and very sophisticated way to say "oh, excuse me, i'm just crazy". neurodivergent is also an umbrella term for people whose brains don't function like the norm and yet the norm is very, very vaguely defined. like, yes, making transition is not considered to be "normal" (walking on a very thin ice here, i don't have the vocabulary to phrase this better) behavior so that alone kinda makes you neurodivergent
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  I mostly agree with what you said, but I don't see how "I'm just crazy" is connected to whatever I said
  
  @hotsadboi 2y
  
  it's me projecting and losing the thread. i don't think stamping "neurodivergent" on people is a solid explanation in itself, also i don't see any strong connection between technical stuff like programming and autism
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  Yeah, can't disagree with that, I guess
3. @purplesyringa 2y
  
  Alright, here's another possibility. Trans people are generally more isolated prior to coming out, because you don't feel like you're in the right place in groups of the assigned gender, and socialization with the right gender is complicated by how you are perceived. And STEM don't require that much socialization compared to social studies or whatever
  
  @hotsadboi 2y
  
  looking at disciplines under STEM abbreviation, programming seems like the leader in terms of how much socialization one have to go through. like, mathematics is even more "i don't want to talk to anybody" type but i never notice that math communities are constantly arguing or joking on the topic of trans people. you can assume that coding lays in the perfect middle ground between social whoring and having no friends for this kind of things but it honestly feels like a reach to me

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A Lifelong Passion for Finding Bugs, Literally and Figuratively

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