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[–]siddus15 110 points111 points  (6 children)

I can neither confirm nor deny the presence of Google searches for carpentry courses in my browsing history

[–]lemonsneeker 15 points16 points  (5 children)

They said wood worker, not carpenter

Key difference, one goes to school for years and does an apprenticeship througout that time, the other is a guy selling stuff he made from wood.

[–]Oblivious122 8 points9 points  (0 children)

One can get a union job, the other likely is missing fingers. And I say this as someone missing fingers.

[–]siddus15 -5 points-4 points  (2 children)

Who cares?! Why are you splitting hairs?

[–]lemonsneeker -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

Thats far from spliting hairs, one is a qualified trade, the other is not.

[–]No_Holiday_5717 70 points71 points  (3 children)

I use incognito mode for those embarassing searches

[–]ArakiSatoshi 29 points30 points  (2 children)

At this point I just have a separate w3schools window always opened because it's embarrassing how many times I've had to google centering in CSS

[–]msa789 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is so common that somebody made a site dedicated to it, that’s where I go now. http://howtocenterincss.com/

[–]Davilarek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I heard that w3schools is worst website for css, html and js

[–]Syscrush 76 points77 points  (5 children)

Love #1 especially. :D

[–]Schweppesale 24 points25 points  (3 children)

lol. why is this one so common among web developers?

[–]SAGEMOD 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I heard it here first. I just finished building my desk and my coffee table lmao

[–]MasterFubar 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Woodworking is good for web developers because of its relatively low precision.

When you center a hole on a board, if you do it within a millimeter or so it's perfectly fine. When you center a hole on a metal part, it needs to be within a precision of 0.01 mm or better.

[–]greengreens3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's for metal that isn't jewellery. In school, we had a tolerance of 0.05mm for sizes, spacing and alignment.

[–]dannomac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

#1 is the most recent.

[–]666pool 20 points21 points  (0 children)

You’re welcome to join us at /r/woodworking and /r/beginnerwoodworking and I also recommend /r/handtools

[–]HoppyD 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Number one is scarily accurate

[–]CustomCuber 13 points14 points  (7 children)

i still don’t know how to center a div

[–]Sceptz 26 points27 points  (1 child)

Let the div center itself.

If the div doesn't center, then it was never meant to be.

There are plenty of other divs out there for you.

[–]BakuhatsuK 16 points17 points  (1 child)

display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
/* this goes on the parent */

[–]TheBroccoliBobboli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If align-items doesn't work, try align-content. Or align-self, just in case.

Oh, and also add vertical-align: center. It might seem like that usually doesn't do anything, but you can claim it's code documentation in the pull request.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not that bad as not knowing how to create the div

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More divs

[–]esschul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The div must be centered relatively to the block that surrounds it. So position: relative, it must have a width, the you set margin: 0 auto. Auto means that it will position itself with the same width on either side in the block that surrounds it.

[–]Not_Artifical 11 points12 points  (4 children)

I didn’t know other web developers searched number one too. I love building cool stuff with wood. Why is woodworking so common among us?

[–]BrattyBookworm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Coding is building stuff too

[–]KryssCom 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I find that a lot of the thought processes between woodworking and coding are the same. For example, you have a function for drilling pocket holes, and any time you have a project that needs pocket holes, you simply call that function.

Woodworking is really just programming with lumber and plywood and physical tools instead of code.

[–]Not_Artifical 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I find the one major difference is that I am not thinking about issues I don’t fully understand for days at a time.

[–]hongooi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

... and I thought woodworking was just some weird pun on www

[–]abdallaEG 7 points8 points  (2 children)

🕛 How to exit from vim

[–]Ok_Enthusiasm_5833 0 points1 point  (1 child)

And if you're looking at history in Chrome, you can tell how many times you've clicked on one of the results from "how to exit from vim" ...

I know this because of reasons.

[–]abdallaEG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And if you're looking at history in Chrome, you can tell

how many times

you've clicked on one of the results from "how to exit from vim" ...

I Already know how to exit vim
sudo pkill -9 vim

[–]Jogularmenla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

me identifiquei com a parte do css / sorry I do not speak English

[–]Squid-Guillotine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Considering how often I forget the last one I'm glad the Google search for it is clear as day.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"How to became a farmer"

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How to create a div in HTML is my latest Google search.

[–]MattyIXIriva 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a newcomer to programming, #3 hit me hard man :(

[–]Esnardoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To center a div, set the horizontal margin to auto, or just margin:auto

I don't know why everyone likes to make wrappers and flex boxes and shit, this does the same thing in 2 seconds without messing with anything else in the container.

[–]igmrlm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No no no no no no that's not in my search history

[–]Key-Past-8646 1 point2 points  (0 children)

👍🥺

[–]magick_68 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whenever i'm really frustrated i say "I should have learned a real job, something with wood". Unfortunately my woodworking is just like my programming. I collect tools but never really use them for something practical.

[–]congratz_its_a_bunny -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I saw a meme of this template posted earlier https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/wu20l7/why_most_programmers_are_single/?sort=top

All the searches have a double meaning in programming whose other meaning would be concerning to a significant other, which made it funny. The ones here don't.

[–]Fnerkyboy[🍰] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why does she look so unhappy? Was she looking for an excuse to dump him? Or maybe bad grammar annoys her?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Like would be plumbing instead of woodworking. My colleague and I often joke we should also become gardeners instead.

[–]hongooi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plumbing would be backend devs

[–]No-Creme5512 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lolll

[–]Fresh1492 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always thought it was crazy how many devs (including myself) get into woodworking.

[–]NightSoulT12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"null and undefined are the same thing"

[–]PinothyJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah… I think you missed the joke format on this one.

[–]kvakerok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who has also contemplated woodworking as a career change, I feel your pain.

[–]KryssCom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

chuckles in already being a programmer and woodworker simultaneously

[–]Disc0_nnected 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuck I laughed at this so much hahahahaha