The Biggest Lie In Programming History

Content Baron Schwartz g xaprb When you're fundraising, it's Al When you're hiring, it's ML When you're implementing, it's linear regression When you're debugging, it's printf() 12:52 AM - Nov 15, 2017 073 174,550 10,284

The corporate world's version of mutually assured destruction. While the programmer faces jail time for his digital revenge bomb, the possum's living his best life in pastry paradise. One destroyed a company's infrastructure, the other infiltrated a donut box—both chaotic neutral heroes in their own domains. The real crime here isn't the kill switch, it's that no one thought to implement proper access revocation protocols. Pro tip: before firing your only DevOps engineer, maybe check if they've left presents in your codebase first? That possum didn't even need to write a single line of code to achieve total victory.

First panel: Developer screaming at TDD like it's some annoying piece of paper being shoved in their face. Second panel: Reluctantly takes a bite of Test-Driven Development. Third panel: Cautiously realizes it's not so bad. Fourth panel: Dreamy eyes - "Why did I fight this for so long? My code is actually... reliable now." The journey from "tests are a waste of time" to "I can't believe I ever coded without tests" happens to the best of us. Just takes one production catastrophe that could've been prevented with a simple test to see the light!

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The most beautiful real-world implementation of a deadlock I've ever seen! Four articulated buses perfectly gridlocked in a roundabout—each one waiting for the other to move first, but none can proceed without the others backing up. It's like watching your multi-threaded code freeze in production, but with public transportation. This is what happens when you forget to implement semaphores in your traffic system. The OS course professor would frame this and hang it in their office. No mutex locks, no resource allocation graph—just pure, unfiltered concurrent disaster playing out in Oslo. Fun fact: The timestamp says 2025, so this is actually a prophetic warning from the future. Quick, someone implement a deadlock prevention algorithm before it's too late!