The Edgecase Won

That face when your PM has absolutely no idea what's happening with the junior devs but needs to report something to the senior team. The grimace says it all - somewhere in the codebase, a junior is implementing a sorting algorithm with 17 nested for-loops while another is committing directly to production at 4:59 PM on Friday. Meanwhile, the PM is just trying to figure out how to spin "complete chaos" into "experiencing some minor technical challenges."

Someone's codebase just jumped from line 6061 to line 19515. That's not a typo, that's a 13,454-line function sitting there like an architectural war crime. When your coworker asks "how long is that function?" and you have to scroll for the next 20 minutes to find the closing bracket, you know someone's been writing code like they're paid by the line. Pretty sure there's a Geneva Convention against functions this long. The debugger autocomplete showing line numbers in the five-digit range is basically a cry for help.

Content Tom Scott tomscott Working on code for a new project. 20:20 What I should do: learn the new state-of-the-art, figure out how to run this as a "serverless" system in The Cloud. What I'm actually doing: fixing up decade-old PHP code, because it works, I trust it, and I know how to fix it if it breaks. 97

Top panel: You, a mere mortal, struggling to create a binary file format from scratch like some kind of masochist. Bottom panel: The hex editor descending from the heavens with divine radiance, ready to save you from your own hubris. Nothing quite humbles you like realizing the tool existed the whole time while you were banging rocks together trying to manually format binary data.

Content 2022 has been an exceptional year for the company. 243 more profits. 99.99999 uptime. O bugs in a year. Without you, we, the board and upper management, couldn't afford those bonuses. However, we have to fire 70 of our workforce. Sorry and happy new vear everyone! (Oh, and we take full responsibility for this decision, whatever that means) ACME AMA 000000009 ACME AMA 090000000

Content G Closed miku-chan03 opened this issue on 18 Oct 2017 2 comments miku-chan03 commented on 18 Oct 2017 Contributor Hil 1 fixie wixied the JSON-api fucksy wucksiell! pp I repwaced the Prototypes. func wiff a more -streamlined- kawaii Pwototypiee. funkywunks object that make the JS go sooper dooper fast!! XD starts twerking Can u pwease merge my pull wequest senpai?!! UwU gaearon commented on 19 Oct 2017 Contributor what in the name of fuck gaearon closed this permanently on 19 Oct 2017