A Fraction Of Our Power

When someone asks if you know any programming paradigm beyond OOP, and your brain immediately goes to "FU"... which conveniently stands for "Functional Programming." The perfect accidental programmer comeback! After 15 years of watching junior devs make everything an object, I've learned that sometimes the best answer to "how should we architect this?" is indeed just "FU." Pure functions, no side effects, and immutability - it's like telling your stateful code to take a hike.

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JavaScript's equality operator (==) is basically a choose-your-own-adventure book written by a sleep-deprived programmer. Want to compare null and undefined ? Sure, they're equal! A string and a number? Let me just transform that string real quick. true equals 1 ? Absolutely! Objects? Hold my coffee while I invoke some toString() magic. This is why senior devs scream "ALWAYS USE TRIPLE EQUALS" during code reviews. The double equals algorithm isn't logic—it's interpretive dance.

Ah yes, the ancient programmer tradition of naming variables like you're being charged by the character. "Why use 'playerCharacterPosition' when 'pcp' works?" they say, while their IDE helpfully autocompletes it anyway. The melting yellow creature perfectly captures that internal meltdown when someone suggests using descriptive variable names. "But my fingers will get tired from all that typing that the computer does for me!" Meanwhile, six months later, nobody remembers what 'plobjcaracy' was supposed to mean, including the person who wrote it.

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Nothing says "I've made poor career choices" quite like spending 14 hours debugging a feature that works perfectly in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, only to have Safari render it like it's 2007. You build something beautiful, test it everywhere, then Safari comes along like that one relative who still uses Internet Explorer and asks "what's the cloud?" The worst part? Apple's response is basically "sounds like a you problem." Meanwhile, you're questioning every CSS flex property you've ever written and contemplating a peaceful life as a goat farmer instead.