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Quality Is Rocky

12 days ago 194.4K views 1 shares

BEHOLD! The eternal developer journey in its most TRAGIC form! That tiny strip of beautiful, smooth asphalt (aka StackOverflow code) sandwiched between two ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC stretches of rocky, bumpy disaster (aka your own code). The audacity of thinking you could seamlessly integrate that perfect snippet into your dumpster fire of a codebase! It's like putting a Gucci belt on a potato sack and calling yourself a fashion icon. HONEY, THAT ROAD ISN'T GOING ANYWHERE GOOD! 💀

Who Cares About Time Complexity

Programming Java

16 days ago 186.7K views 0 shares

💀 THE AUDACITY of this code! Converting Roman numerals by replacing each symbol with its equivalent in unary notation and then just returning the string length?! This is like solving a math problem by drawing stick figures and counting them. The algorithm's time complexity is the LEAST of our concerns when someone's out here committing war crimes against computer science. Somewhere, a CS professor just felt a disturbance in the force and doesn't know why.

108 Line Long Variable Declaration

Unity Csharp Gamedev Programming

17 days ago 124.1K views 0 shares

OMG, THIS CODE IS A CRIME SCENE! 😱 Look at that absolute MONSTROSITY of variable declarations stretching from line 24 to line 140! That's not code, that's a developer's cry for help written in syntax! The poor soul who has to maintain this Unity game is probably rocking back and forth in a corner somewhere. I mean, who needs comments and organization when you can just VOMIT 108 LINES OF VARIABLES into your class? Bonus points for that sad little empty Start() method at the bottom, just sitting there like "please... I just want to initialize something... ANYTHING!"

Yes, I Wrote That Thing 😭

Javascript Webdev Algorithms Programming Debugging

1 month ago 206.5K views 1 shares

Nothing says "I panicked during a coding interview" quite like writing FizzBuzz with three separate if statements and continue in each one. The interviewer's face progression from neutral to facepalm to disbelief is the universal reaction to code that technically works but makes seasoned developers want to throw their mechanical keyboards out the window. Pro tip: If your solution has more continue statements than actual logic, your future teammates are already updating their resumes.

Query Inception: When Your Query Is So Query It Queries Itself

Databases Csharp Programming Debugging Backend

1 month ago 259.4K views 0 shares

Query Inception: When Your Query Is So Query It Queries Itself

Ah, the classic SQL query written by someone who clearly learned database access from a fortune cookie. The SQL is backwards—it should be "SELECT * FROM Customers" but they've written "FROM Customers SELECT *". The real chef's kiss is that this is wrapped in a method called "GetCustomersQuery" inside a class called "Query" which is also creating an object called "query" of type "Query.Query". It's like naming your dog "Dog" and then calling your dog's puppy "Dog.Dog" and then teaching it a trick called "GetDogTrick()". Four years of computer science for this masterpiece. 💀

The Ultimate Job Security Hack

Programming Agile Debugging Testing

2 months ago 189.7K views 0 shares

The dark truth no CS professor ever warns you about. Write elegant, maintainable code and you'll be replaced by the next bootcamp grad in 48 hours. Create a tangled nightmare of spaghetti code with zero documentation, and suddenly you've got job security until retirement. The real 10x developer strategy isn't writing more code—it's making yourself unfireable by being the only one who understands the monstrosity you've created. Career hack unlocked!

Useless Loop: Four Hours Of My Life Gone Forever

Python Algorithms Programming Debugging

2 months ago 231.8K views 0 shares

Useless Loop: Four Hours Of My Life Gone Forever

Ah, the classic "let me wait for this to finish" trap. The code imports the time module, sets runtime to 14400 (exactly 4 hours in seconds), then runs a loop that sleeps for 1 second... 14,400 times. The kicker? This could've been done with a single time.sleep(14400) . But no, some sadistic soul decided to make the computer wake up 14,400 separate times just to check if we're done yet. We've all been there - watching a progress bar, waiting for a build, or running some unnecessary loop because "that's how the senior dev did it." Four hours later, you're questioning your career choices and wondering if becoming a goat farmer might've been the better path.

The Endless Else-If Enjoyer

Programming Csharp Typescript Javascript Python

2 months ago 242.6K views 0 shares

The left guy is literally crying while begging for proper control flow structure, while the chad on the right just keeps stacking else if statements like he's building a Jenga tower of technical debt. Sure, both approaches work, but one of them makes your future self contemplate a career change to organic farming. After eight years as a senior dev, I've seen codebases held together by 47 consecutive else-ifs and the hollow eyes of the maintainers.

The Four Horsemen Of Infinite Loops

Programming Csharp Algorithms Javascript Python

2 months ago 301.3K views 0 shares

The evolution of infinite loops from "acceptable" to "summoning Satan himself": First panel: while (true) {} - The classic approach. Clean, honest, straightforward. "Yes, I'm creating an infinite loop on purpose. What about it?" Second panel: while (["*"].Contains["*"]) {} - Getting spicy! The unnecessary complexity is like wearing a tuxedo to take out the trash. It still does the same thing, but with style . Third panel: while (Random.Int(Integer.MaxInt) is Number) {} - Now we're just being passive-aggressive. "It's not technically infinite... but it is." The programming equivalent of "I'm not touching you!" Final panel: while (DateTime.Now - Breaking the fabric of space-time. This isn't just bad code, it's a cry for help. The compiler isn't even mad anymore, just disappointed.

Get Motivated To Write Terrible Code

Python Programming Debugging Testing

2 months ago 269.7K views 0 shares

Top: A horrifying cascade of hardcoded if-statements checking individual values from 457 to 463, alternating between returning True and False. Bottom: The reason for this atrocity - a script that generates these if-statements by asking how many you need, then writing them to a file with alternating boolean returns. And they say automation is supposed to make our lives better. This is the programming equivalent of using a CNC machine to carve "Live, Laugh, Love" signs.

Say "You're Absolutely Right" One More Time

AI Programming Debugging Testing

2 months ago 234.4K views 0 shares

Say "You're Absolutely Right" One More Time

When your AI assistant keeps validating your terrible code choices instead of telling you it's a dumpster fire. Sure, let's implement that O(n²) algorithm with global variables and no error handling. You're "absolutely right" that it's production ready. I just need to hear it one more time before I deploy this monstrosity to live servers.

The Nested Table Nightmare

Frontend Webdev Programming Debugging

3 months ago 199.3K views 0 shares

Sweet mother of recursion! This HTML structure is the digital equivalent of those Russian nesting dolls, except instead of cute wooden figures, you get tables inside tables inside tables . It's like HTML inception where a table dreams it's inside another table, which is also dreaming! 💀 And that lonely little paragraph tag just sitting there, probably questioning its life choices and wondering how it ended up in this nested nightmare. This is the kind of code that makes senior developers wake up screaming at 3 AM.

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