Reddit Sort: The World's Least Efficient Algorithm

When your CS professor asks for a simple multiplication function but you decide to use recursion and set your computer's RAM on LITERAL FIRE! 🔥 The code is basically saying "I'll add 'a' to itself 'b' times" but in the MOST DRAMATIC WAY POSSIBLE! Your poor CPU is screaming in agony while calculating 3×4 through FOUR recursive calls when a simple multiplication operator would've done the job in 0.000001 seconds! The stack trace is probably longer than my list of regrets after staying up all night debugging this monstrosity! And for what? To impress who exactly?! The computer gods are NOT amused, honey! 💅

The hard truth nobody wants to hear: a single boolean value takes up an entire byte in memory, wasting 7 perfectly good bits. It's like buying an 8-bedroom mansion just to store a houseplant. Memory optimization purists lie awake at night thinking about those wasted bits while the rest of us just keep adding more RAM to our machines. Sure, we could pack 8 booleans into a single byte with bit manipulation, but who has time for that when there's a deadline tomorrow and the client just changed the requirements again?

THE AUDACITY of this developer thinking they can survive without a proper waste management function! 💩 Some innocent soul created a cute life algorithm banner with just eat() , sleep() , and code() in an infinite loop, and then BOOM! Someone had to point out the CRITICAL FLAW in their system architecture! Without poop() , that memory buffer is going to fill up FAST, honey! And we all know what happens next... catastrophic system failure! Your body's heap memory isn't infinite, sweetie! 💅 It's basically the most relatable garbage collection failure in human history. Eat without pooping? In THIS economy?!

Why learn a language when you can spend 6 months mastering the art of avoiding it? That airplane making a complete U-turn away from "Learn Any Programming Language 100%" towards "Algorithms, DataStructures" is basically my career in a nutshell. Nothing says "professional developer" quite like knowing seventeen sorting algorithms but still Googling how to center a div. We're all just glorified detour enthusiasts with impostor syndrome and a Stack Overflow addiction.

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of Bogo Sort, the superhero nobody asked for! 💀 This algorithm is literally just shuffling cards until they accidentally fall in order . Seven attempts to sort THREE elements?! I can't even! That's like needing seven tries to put your shoes on the right feet! And the flowchart? Check for sorted → if not, SHUFFLE EVERYTHING and pray to the algorithm gods. That's not a sorting algorithm, that's a gambling addiction with extra steps! The best part? It has "the potential to rival quicksort" in the same way I have the potential to win an Olympic gold medal if they suddenly make procrastination a competitive sport. Theoretical O(1)? Sure, and I'm theoretically dating a supermodel! 🙄

Ah, the classic bait and switch of tech hiring. You show up to the interview in your fancy suit (Tom from Tom & Jerry), answering questions about red-black trees and time complexity while sweating through your bow tie. Then six months later, you're in the trenches (buff Jerry), sleep-deprived, debugging legacy code written by someone who clearly hated humanity, chugging coffee at 2 AM because production is down and somehow it's your fault. The algorithm questions? Haven't used that knowledge once. But hey, at least you can tell your friends you're a "software engineer" while you're actually just Stack Overflow's most loyal customer.