Reddit Sort: The World's Least Efficient Algorithm

College professors living in 2010. Rejecting modern frameworks and buzzwords with a dismissive hand, but absolutely glowing at the prospect of making students implement bubble sort for the 47th time. Nothing says "preparing you for the industry" like coding algorithms nobody's written from scratch since the Bush administration.

This algorithm doesn't kill itself—it just makes inconvenient values disappear! The code starts with good intentions, but any element smaller than the current minimum gets mysteriously "[REDACTED]" instead of being properly sorted. Just like certain prison surveillance footage, some data points never make it to the final array. The comment at the bottom is even missing the return statement... because dead code tells no tales.

Someone asks an engineer to "prove it" by naming every computer ever, and Richard responds with the perfect programmer solution: a loop that literally names every computer "ever." It's the coding equivalent of being asked to name every Pokémon and answering "Jeff. I've named them all Jeff." Technically correct—the best kind of correct! The classic programmer's malicious compliance through clever syntax rather than endless enumeration. Why memorize when you can automate?

Relationship saved with a single line of code. Guy tells his girlfriend she's at index 1 in his array of interests, making her think she's his #2 priority. Plot twist: arrays start at 0, so she's actually his #1. Classic programmer misdirection that works because non-programmers don't realize zero-indexing exists. Somewhere, a senior dev is nodding approvingly at this elegant solution to a production issue.

The meme perfectly captures the divide between people who think binary is just "1+1=10" and actual programmers who deal with the real complexities of code. Top panel: SpongeBob and Patrick excitedly pointing at "1+1=10" like they've discovered some mind-blowing secret of the universe. Bottom panel: The jaded, unimpressed SpongeBob labeled "Actual programmers" who's seen this elementary binary joke recycled at every tech meetup since 2002. It's like watching someone proudly announce they know what HTTP stands for while you're knee-deep debugging a race condition in production. Cute, but come back when you've stared into the void of a memory leak at 3 AM.

On the left: "CS is dead!" crowd screaming into the void on Reddit. On the right: Developer proudly using array.sort()[0] in an interview when asked to find the smallest number in a list. Turns out the job market isn't dead—it just doesn't want people who think built-in methods are algorithmic brilliance. Who knew interviewers wanted to see you actually understand sorting algorithms instead of calling JavaScript's magical sort fairy?