Ben Halpern

Posted on Aug 24

Meme Monday

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

Relatable coding humor and community memes

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Daniel Balcarek

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Daniel Balcarek

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Ekong Ikpe

hackers will forever exist else bugs are nothing.

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😂

Ben Halpern

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I was going to use that :(

Ben Halpern

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raddevus

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If you see a GenXer and they seem grumpy about the way things are going, it's because this meme is so true.

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Exactly that. We grew up hoping for the future to be better than the past.

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raddevus

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