Shorten Movie: The Ultimate Compression Algorithm

Ah, the glorious isEven.js function with a chain of if-else statements that would make any senior dev weep into their coffee. Nothing says "I have a CS degree" like checking each number individually instead of using num % 2 === 0 . But honestly, that lakeside view is the real flex here. You're not coding like this because you don't have a six-figure remote job that lets you write terrible algorithms while overlooking a serene winter landscape. The code may be horrific, but that work-life balance is god-tier.

Oh, the brilliance of "StalinSort" - where elements that don't conform to the expected order simply... disappear . It's a historical algorithm joke that's both O(n) efficient and politically incorrect! The algorithm "eliminates" non-conforming elements rather than rearranging them, which is a dark reference to Stalin's purges where people who didn't fall in line were removed from society (and often from photos). Technically, it's not even a sorting algorithm - it's just filtering with dictatorial characteristics. The kind of code that would get flagged in a code review faster than you can say "comrade".

The infinite recursion of scanning a QR code that's already on your device! It's like trying to use `document.getElementById('document')` - technically possible but completely pointless. That moment when your brain bluescreens because you're trying to scan something that's literally in your hands. The digital equivalent of looking for your phone while talking on it. Recursive function with no base case - we're headed for a stack overflow!

Looking at that isEven function hurts my soul on a spiritual level. Someone's literally checking if a number is even by hard-coding individual cases (0 is even, 1 is odd, 2 is even, 3 is odd...) instead of just using the modulo operator ( return num % 2 === 0 ). And they're doing this while casually flying 30,000 feet in the air with a gorgeous view! The perfect combo of terrible code and flex. My sanity would jump out that window faster than you can say "runtime complexity."

The revolutionary "Elon Sort" algorithm - where chaos is a feature, not a bug! First, fire half your array elements without warning. Then rehire them when you realize you need them after all. Repeat these steps a completely arbitrary number of times, then proudly announce your array is sorted without bothering to verify. It's the perfect algorithm if your goal is maximum drama with minimum functionality. Efficiency: O(wtf).

The eternal quest for micro-optimization strikes again! Some poor soul wrote an entire math library in Rust just to divide 60 by 9 from Python. That's like building a nuclear reactor to charge your phone. Sure, Rust is blazingly fast, but at what cost? Your sanity? Three months of your life? Meanwhile, Python would've just returned 6.666... before you finished typing "cargo new". The Shrek running meme perfectly captures that mix of pride and madness that comes with over-engineering a simple solution. We've all been there—spending hours optimizing code that runs once a month to save 0.02 seconds.