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11 Educational Tech Memes For All Programmers (With Explanation)

No intro, but like this post if you enjoy these memes. Experience level required to understand every meme is written from 1 to 5 where 1 is lowest and 5 is highest.

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Credits: @programmerhumor_io on Instagram
Experience level required to understand this meme: 1/5
Explanation: the intern fixed a bug by commenting the code, in other words, removed the entire feature that caused the bug.

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Credits: @linuxtechtips on Instagram
Experience level required to understand this meme: 2/5
Explanation: new engineers tend to be confident in messing around with production DBs, but only senior SWEs know how careful things need to be done in production DBs without introducing breaking changes.

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Credits: @linuxtechtips on Instagram
Experience level required to understand this meme: 2/5
Explanation: deploying app to production is a complicated process where you need to set up a lot of configs, environment variables, etc.

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Credits: @coderhumor on Instagram
Experience level required to understand this meme: 1/5
Explanation: this person pulled a classic beginner move to write a function that finds if the number is odd/even by checking every number. A better way is to use the modulus operator and check whether the remainder is 0 (even) or otherwise.

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Credits: @linuxtechtips on Instagram
Experience level required to understand this meme: 4/5
Explanation: once you become a senior dev, you wouldn't try to remember everything. Instead you'll try to remember the concepts and Google the codes only when needed.

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Credits: @coderhumor on Instagram
Experience level required to understand this meme: 4/5
Explanation: this guy received access to production server in his first week of work, and accidentally shut it down. He had to drive to data center to restart the server.

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Credits: @coderhumor on Instagram
Experience level required to understand this meme: 3/5
Explanation: she is sort of teasing programmers who spend way too much time building complicated design in CSS which can be done in an easier way.

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Credits: @linuxtechtips on Instagram
Experience level required to understand this meme: 1/5
Explanation: it's funny because it's true.

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Credits: @linuxtechtips on Instagram
Experience level required to understand this meme: 3/5
Explanation: no offense to recruiters but sometimes you'll be approached by recruiters on LinkedIn who think that JavaScript is a superset of Java.

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Credits: @linuxtechtips on Instagram
Experience level required to understand this meme: 3/5
Explanation: every post/video that explains about API uses waiter as a metaphor.

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Credits: @dev.at.work on Instagram
Experience level required to understand this meme: 3/5
Explanation: this guy forgot about the alphabet R and thought of R, the programming language.

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Meg Gutshall

😆 #6 is my favorite with #11 as a close second.

I saw #4 unfold in real time on Twitter and it was a hilarious thread. So many mansplainers stepped in to help not realizing that it was a joke.

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Mohmed Ishak

Glad you liked them.

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KUMAR HARSH

I am lowkey scared of deployment now lol 😂

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Mohmed Ishak

Be very scared. 😂