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Content Jeroen Frijters JeroenFrijters 1d The Dutch government was forced to release the source code of their DigiD digital authentication iOS app. It is written in C. github.comMinBZKwoo-bes... private static string GetPercentageRounds (double percentage) if (percentage 0) return "0000000000"; if (percentage 0.0 percentage 0.1) return "0000000000"; 11 percentage 0.1 percentage 0.2) return if (percentage noTunn 00000000"; 0.2 percentage 0.3) 0000000" if percentage ercentage 0.4) 11 percentage 0.5) 11 percentage 0.6) return if percentage 6 percentage 0.7) return 000" 1 percentage 0.7 percentage 0.8) 11 percentage return a percentage 0.9) 0000": return 11 1.3M Q308 171,196 6,678 08 tyrannoSaurav TyrannoSaurav Replying to JeroenFrijters Ahh I see the problem is that there are too many if statements. Here's a solution implementing binary search in O(log n) private static string GetPercentageRounds (double percentage) if (percentage 0 So percentage 0.5) if (percentage 0.2) if (percentage 0.1; 11 percentage return return return "O 00"; if (percentage 0.4) if (percentage 0.3) return "0000000000"; return "000000000"; return " 0000"; if (percentage 0.5 percentage 0.9) if (percentage 0.7) if (percentage return gOO" return if (percentage return return return

The classic descent into legacy code hell! What starts as a bright-eyed "You got the job!" quickly spirals into the ninth circle of developer inferno. First, you discover there's "no documentation" (translation: we were too busy putting out fires to write any). Then the gut punch - zero comments in the codebase because apparently psychic abilities are an unwritten job requirement. The final horrors reveal themselves: cryptic three-letter variable names that would make a license plate proud (wtf, tmp, idx anyone?) and 2000+ line monolithic files that should have been refactored during the Obama administration. It's not debugging at this point - it's digital archaeology with a side of existential crisis.

That moment when your bootcamp "Hello World" project meets the absolute behemoth of production code in the wild. The cargo ship isn't just carrying containers—it's hauling technical debt, legacy systems, undocumented features, and that one critical function written by a dev who left in 2011. Meanwhile, you're standing there with your perfectly formatted 10-line script wondering why nobody told you about the seven layers of authentication and the custom build system written in Perl.

You know what's wild? Someone out there is looking at raw assembly with add , str , imd , and register manipulation and genuinely thinking "yeah, this is totally readable." Meanwhile the rest of us are squinting at it like it's ancient hieroglyphics written by a caffeinated robot. Assembly is what you write when you want job security through obscurity. Sure, it's "perfectly readable" if you've spent the last decade living in a cave with only CPU instruction manuals for company. For everyone else, it's just a beautiful reminder that high-level languages exist for a reason—so we don't have to manually juggle registers like we're performing circus acts. The delusion is real. Every assembly programmer thinks they're writing poetry while the rest of the team needs a PhD just to understand what jmp_eq user_input_end is doing at 3 AM during an incident.

Someone woke up and chose violence. The goal here is to feed ChatGPT such cursed, chaotic code that it just gives up and starts hallucinating error messages. Think legacy PHP spaghetti mixed with recursive bash scripts, sprinkled with some jQuery from 2009, all wrapped in a Dockerfile that uses FROM scratch unironically. It's like trying to teach a language model by showing it only the worst code ever written. "Here GPT, analyze this 5000-line function with no comments and 47 nested if statements. Have fun!" The AI equivalent of making someone watch every JavaScript framework tutorial from the last decade simultaneously. Bonus points if the repo includes a README that just says "it works on my machine" and a package.json with 300 dependencies, half of which are deprecated.

Content C Closed miku-chan03 opened this issue on 18 Oct 2017 2 comments miku-chan03 commented on 18 Oct 2017 Contributor Hi I fixie wixied the JSON-api fucksy wucksiel!! xpp I repwaced the Prototypes. func wiff a more -streamylined- kawaii Pwototypiee. funkywunks object that make the JS go sooper dooper fast!! XD starts twerking Can u pwease merge my pwull wequest senpai?!! UwU gaearon commented on 19 Oct 2017 Contributor what in the name of fuck gaearon closed this permanently on 19 Oct 2017