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Soydev

Sodevs are incompetent wanna-be programmers that usually have these characteristics:

Being pseudoleftist (fascist) political activists pushing tranny software and COCs while actually being mainstream centrists in the tech world (advocating "open-source" instead of free_software, being okay with proprietary software, bloat etc.).
Trying to be "cool", having friends and even spouses and kids, wearing T-shirts with "coding jokes", having tattoos, piercing and colored hair (also trimmed bear in case of males), having that ugly snowflake (i.e. bizarre) kind of look to catch attention, signaling virtues on social networks.
Only being hired in tech for a no-brainer job such as "coding websites" or because of diversity quotas.
Being actually bad at programming, using meme high-level languages like JavaScript, Python or Rust. { I shit you not, I learned from a friend who lives in India that "universities" there produce "security experts" who don't even have to know any programming and math. They just learn some sysadmin stuff and installing antiviruses, without having any clue about how encryption works etc. These people get regular degrees. Really makes me wanna kys myself. ~drummyfish }
Using a Mac.
Thinking they're experts in technology because they are familiar with the existence of Linux (usually some mainstream distro such as Ubuntu) and can type cd and ls in the terminal.
Having only shallow awareness of tech culture, telling big-bang-theory HTML jokes (sudo make sandwich, 42 hahahahahahaha).
Being highly active on social networks, probably having a pixel-art portrait of their ugly face and "personal pronouns" on their profile.
Believing in and engaging in capitalism, believing corporations such as Microsoft, wanting to create "startups", being obsessed with productivity, inspirational quotes and masturbating to tech "visionaries" like Steve Jobs. The "rebels" among these are advocating FOSS, however they always promote huge bloat and de-facto capitalist software which is no different from proprietary software.
Using buzzwords like "solution", "orchestration" etc.
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Here is a quick rough comparison of seydevs and actual good programmers (nowadays mostly an extinct species):

characteristic	good programmer	soydev
math skills	deep knowledge of math	"I don't need it", "there's library for that", memorized math interview questions
computer knowledge	all-level, big-picture knowledge of principles	knowledge of trivia ("This checkbox in this framework has to be unchecked.", ...)
specialization	generalist	hyperspecialized, knows one language/framework
prog. languages	C, assembly, FORTRAN, Forth, comun, lisp, ...	Python, JavaScript, Rust, Java, C#, C++2045, ...
mostly does	thinking about algorithms and data structures	typing glue code for different libraries, updates/maintains systems, talks to people
political opinions	politically incorrect hippie anarcho pacifist	liberal capitalist feminist pro black lesbian LGBT fascist anti Nazi
hardware	640x480 1990s laptop, no mouse	2023 touchscreen 1080K macbook with stickers all over, wireless $1000 AI gaming mouse
memorized knowledge	10000 digits of pi	10000 genders plus offensive words he mustn't say
text editor	vim, ed, ...	Microsoft AI blockchain VSCode with 10000 plugins running in 10000 virtual sandboxes
looks	fat, unwashed, unkept beard, dirty clothes	pink hair, fake glasses, $1000 T-shirt "sudo make sandwich HAHA BAZINGA", 10000 tattoos
gender	male	depends on mood
race	white	prefers not to specify, offended by the question
hobbies	reading encyclopedias, chess, rocket science	distrohopping, browserhopping, githopping, editorhopping, tiktok, partying

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