The Dictator's Guide To Arrays

C++ devs catching strays here. The tweet claims C++ is "easy mode" because the compiler optimizes your garbage code into something performant. Then it drops the hot take that *real* programming mastery is shown by writing efficient code in Python or JavaScript—languages where you can't hide behind compiler optimizations. The irony is palpable. C++ is notorious for being one of the most unforgiving languages out there—manual memory management, undefined behavior lurking around every corner, and template errors that look like Lovecraftian nightmares. Meanwhile, Python and JavaScript are interpreted languages where you can literally concatenate strings in a loop a million times and watch your performance tank because there's no compiler to save you from yourself. It's like saying "driving a manual transmission car is easy mode, but driving an automatic requires true skill because you have to be efficient with the gas pedal." The mental gymnastics are Olympic-level.

When your technical interview prep feels like protection against getting completely screwed by the industry. These LeetCode condoms are the perfect metaphor for what the platform actually does - gives you a false sense of security while the algorithm problems still manage to f*ck you anyway. At least now you can say "I was prepared" while crying in the rejection email corner.

When your weight variable hits zero and keeps decreasing, you don't disappear—you just wrap around to the maximum value! This is the programmer's version of weight loss where integer underflow turns you from a skinny stick figure into a buff dude instantly. No gym required, just exploit the data type limitations. It's basically the same hack that made Pac-Man playable after level 255. The thin person panicking about being "erased from existence" clearly never implemented proper boundary checks!

Ah, the legendary "setTimeout Sort" algorithm. Efficiency: O(whenever JavaScript feels like it). The code loops through an array and uses setTimeout to log each value with the item itself as the delay. So smaller numbers appear first in the console, creating an "accidental" sorting mechanism that relies entirely on the browser's timer queue. It's like asking your intern to sort papers by throwing them in the air and picking them up in whatever order they land. Somehow it worked this time, but don't tell your senior dev.

Ah, the vicious cycle of tech interviews. You spend weeks memorizing quicksort implementations that you'll never use in production, only to get hired and inflict the same algorithmic hazing on the next generation of developers. It's like learning elaborate medieval torture techniques just so you can become the torturer. And we wonder why our codebases are full of npm packages that sort arrays.

Look at these peasants SPRINTING to ChatGPT while the door to actual knowledge stands wide open and COMPLETELY ABANDONED! Why learn binary trees when an AI can vomit code for you?! The absolute BETRAYAL of computer science fundamentals! Meanwhile, universities are still teaching sorting algorithms like it's 1995 and not like we're living in the AI APOCALYPSE. The data structures door might as well have cobwebs on it at this point!