JS Gives Nightmares

Boolean questions should return TRUE or FALSE. That's it. No debate. No explanation. Just binary logic. But then there's that one colleague who responds with "Well, it depends..." and proceeds to write a novel-length string response that could've been a simple yes/no. The worst part? You're still parsing their answer three coffee refills later, trying to figure out if they meant true or false. It's like asking "Is this variable null?" and getting back the entire Git commit history since 2015.

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Oh snap! This is Boolean variables in their natural habitat - doing the splits between TRUE and FALSE with absolutely no middle ground! Just like this person on the subway bench stretching into oblivion, booleans only know two states: completely true or utterly false. No "kinda true" or "sorta false" allowed in their binary world! They're the drama queens of programming - always dealing in absolutes while the rest of us float-type variables are just trying to exist somewhere in the decimal points of life.

Content It is lik programming with my grandfather Ordinary functions and objects. You only use basic HTTP requests. Why are you avoiding complexity? My mentor said it was enough for projects of this era.

This meme perfectly captures the duality of programming languages. On the left, we have the muscular Doge representing "Any other language" where you can cram an entire project into one line and the compiler just shrugs and says "whatever." Meanwhile, Python (the wimpy Doge) is having an existential crisis because you forgot a single space in your indentation. Python's strict whitespace requirements will have you staring at "IndentationError" for 30 minutes before realizing you mixed tabs and spaces like some kind of monster. The compiler that was supposed to make your life easier is now questioning your entire existence because you dared to press the spacebar incorrectly. It's basically like having a grammar nazi as your interpreter.

The most elegant solution: return user || null; The solution when your manager mentions "performance bonuses tied to code output metrics": whatever this monstrosity is. Somewhere, a junior dev is wondering why their PR keeps getting rejected while the tech debt architect who wrote this garbage is getting promoted.