The Pupil-Dilating Joy Of Compilation Success

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That moment when you open your old project and stare at your own code like it was written by a cryptic alien civilization. No comments, no documentation, just pure chaos that somehow worked. The worst part? You were so proud of those "clever" one-liners that now make absolutely zero sense. Future you always pays for past you's shortcuts.

College CS departments be like: "Here's how to implement a red-black tree from scratch" but won't teach you about the horrors of production code written by caffeinated developers at 2AM. The Daily WTF chronicles real-world coding disasters that no algorithm class prepares you for. Nothing says "welcome to the industry" like inheriting a codebase where someone used Excel as a database and regex to parse HTML. Academia vs reality: the eternal comedy special.

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