What Are The Odds?

When you need to reverse a number's sign but decide to take the scenic route through Absurdistan... This function is the programming equivalent of using a nuclear submarine to cross a puddle. The code checks if d is negative, then uses Abs() to make it positive (reasonable). But if it's positive? It subtracts d*2 from itself—a galaxy-brain approach to multiplication by -1. What makes this truly horrifying is that this overcomplicated monstrosity was part of the UK Post Office's Horizon system that led to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of postal workers. Real people went to jail because someone couldn't write d = -d . The tragic irony? The comment literally shows the correct solution right above the function. It's like putting "just use stairs" in the elevator manual, then designing a catapult instead.

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Oh look, it's the "my code is basically just a long-winded love letter to the compiler" approach. Every single line drowning in comments that explain the blindingly obvious while adding zero actual value. This is what happens when someone takes "document your code" advice and cranks it to 11. You know who writes code like this? The same person who explains what a fork is while handing it to you at dinner. The real irony? After 7 years in the industry, you'll be begging for any comments in the 10,000-line legacy codebase you've inherited. Just not... whatever this crime against syntax highlighting is.

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Nothing beats the raw, unfiltered knowledge from that one Indian guy on YouTube teaching complex algorithms on a 240p video with a $2 microphone. Meanwhile, senior devs with fancy degrees are watching the same video because Stack Overflow is down and the documentation might as well be written in hieroglyphics. The best part? That "beginner" tutorial somehow solves problems the official docs claim are "impossible." The programming hierarchy isn't about years of experience—it's about who can find that one perfect tutorial at 3 AM when everything's on fire.

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