The Art Of Problem Avoidance

The classic developer-client relationship in its natural habitat! Person A desperately asks "how can we fix this?" about some UI issue. Person B, clearly the developer, responds with a technical solution about rotating text 90 degrees vertical. Then comes the inevitable "Can you show that cell of code?" request because clients never trust that something might actually be complicated. And what happens? The developer goes silent, fires up Jupyter notebook on localhost, and dives into their actual interesting work instead. Nothing says "I'm done with this conversation" like sharing a localhost URL that nobody else can possibly access. Pure passive-aggressive developer poetry.

Content 10 WAYS TO TROLL YOUR DEVELOPER 1: CHANGE ALL CONSOLE SETTINGS TO BLACK ON BLACK. STRANGE... NO DEBUG PRINTOUTS 2: HAVE THEM FIX OLD CODE. 3: REQUIRE IT TO WORK ON ALL PLATFORMS. IT WILL HAVE TORUN ON IOS, ANDROID, WINDOWS PHONE AND THIS ROTARY FROM 1931. 4: HIRE UNQUALIFIED DEVELOPERS. CHAD WILLBE DOING UI. 5: DISREGARD ANY NEED FOR TESTING. A TESTING PHASE ISN'T REALLY IN THE BUDGET IT'S JUST GONNA HAVE TO WORK 6: REQUIRE IT TO WORK FOR ALL USER GROUPS. MR. NIBBLES SAID ITS VERY UNINTUITIVE. MEOW. 7: POP YOUR HEAD IN EVERY FIVE MINUTES TOROND OVER YOUR STUPID COWORKERS SHARON USES A QUESTION MARK WHEN SHE GOOGLES A QUESTIONI 8: BLOCK ALL ACCESS TO STACK OVERFLOW. NOW, NOW, NO CHEATING CELO 9: MAKE ALL TASKS TOP PRIORITY. THE DATABASE NEEDS TO BEUP AND RUNNING ASAP, AS WELL AS THE AUDIO ENGINE, CRITICAL AND ALSO 3D BUTTON SHADING. 10:ASK A DEV TO 'FIX YOUR COMPUTER' MR. NIBBLES WAS WATCHING GOOD WIFE AND SUDDENLY THIS BLUE THINGY CAME War and Peas

Ah, the infamous "code comment confession" that every developer leaves behind after battling with the dark arts of programming! This poor soul has created what can only be described as a digital Frankenstein's monster—complete with dramatic warnings that would make even horror writers proud. The desperate plea "WARNING: DO NOT REUSE THIS CODE" followed by the poetic "one-off monstrosities, stitched together in haste and despair" is the programming equivalent of finding ancient ruins with "CURSED - DO NOT ENTER" carved above the door... except we'll absolutely still copy-paste it anyway. My favorite part? The region comment at the bottom that's basically saying "I've committed sins against computer science, and now I'm passing this burden to you." It's the digital equivalent of handing someone a ticking time bomb while slowly backing away.

The joke here is absolutely brilliant. The top part shows a tweet saying "guys literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting" - a popular meme format implying men have shallow desires. But the punchline? The "disgusting" thing developers want is actually clean code compilation with zero errors, zero warnings, and all tests passing. That green success bar is basically developer pornography. The satisfaction of seeing "Compiled with 0 errors and 0 warnings" and "Process finished with exit code 0" is practically a religious experience in the coding world. It's the digital equivalent of a perfect parallel park on your driver's test.

When your IDE is screaming at you with 47 warnings, your linter is having a mental breakdown, and ESLint is threatening to quit, but the code compiles and runs perfectly fine. You just close all those warning tabs and move on with your life like the apex predator you are. Deprecated functions? Unused variables? Potential memory leaks? That's future-you's problem. Right now, the client wants features, not clean code. The lion doesn't lose sleep over the opinions of sheep, and you don't lose sleep over the opinions of static analysis tools. Sure, your code might be held together with duct tape and prayers, but if it passes the ultimate test—actually working—then who cares? Warnings are just suggestions anyway, right? Right?

Two stone figures climbing opposite sides of the same staircase, destined to never meet – just like those poor elements in your array during a bidirectional search. They're working so hard, climbing step by step, comparing values, only to pass each other in the night. Classic algorithm heartbreak. Next time just use a hash table and save yourself the medieval architecture tour.