Hardcoding Memes

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Sounds A Bit Simple
Programming Security Python Debugging Testing
1 day ago 63.9K views 1 shares
Sounds A Bit Simple
Top panel: Normal human being using proper random modules like a functioning member of society. Bottom panel: The unhinged developer who thinks return 4 is a perfectly acceptable random number generator because "it was randomly chosen by me, so technically it's random." Somewhere in production, a critical system is running on hardcoded "randomness" and nobody has noticed yet.

URL Parameters: The Ultimate Security Protocol
Security Webdev Programming Frontend Backend
19 days ago 70.1K views 0 shares
URL Parameters: The Ultimate Security Protocol
Look at that URL parameter: isGina=false . Some developer really said "let's just hardcode user identity in the query string" and called it a day. Security through obscurity at its finest! Next time Gina forgets her password, she just needs to hack the URL to isGina=true and boom—instant access. Who needs authentication when you can just tell the system who you are? Somewhere a security engineer is having a panic attack while the intern who wrote this is proudly adding "implemented user authentication system" to their resume.

Whose Side Are You On: Algorithm Purists vs. Pragmatic Coders
C++ Algorithms Programming Debugging
21 days ago 77.4K views 0 shares
Whose Side Are You On: Algorithm Purists vs. Pragmatic Coders
Two types of C programmers in the wild. On the left, the algorithm purist who builds a nested loop monstrosity with variables like "i" and "j" because apparently naming variables is too mainstream. On the right, the pragmatist who just hardcodes the damn star pattern and goes home early. The left guy is still debugging his loop indices while the right guy is already enjoying his weekend. Sure, it's not "elegant" or "scalable," but it works and nobody's going to maintain this code anyway. Let's be honest, we've all been both of these people at different points in our careers.

Sounds A Bit Simple
Algorithms Math Programming Python
27 days ago 87.5K views 0 shares
Sounds A Bit Simple
Oh honey, you think importing libraries for random numbers is the sophisticated approach? *dramatic hair flip* Meanwhile, the ABSOLUTE PSYCHOPATHS who hardcode their own random number generators without ANY external input are lurking in the shadows, cackling maniacally! They're not just playing with fire - they're BATHING in gasoline while juggling flaming chainsaws! The sheer AUDACITY! The MADNESS! Writing your own pseudo-random algorithm is basically telling the universe "I don't trust your entropy, I'll make my own chaos, thank you very much!" It's the programming equivalent of refusing to use a map and instead just FEELING which way north is!

The Hardcoded Chess Nightmare
Python Gamedev Algorithms Programming
1 month ago 93.9K views 0 shares
The Hardcoded Chess Nightmare
When your friend discovers you're hardcoding an entire chess game by manually printing each board state for every possible move. 2.6 million lines of code instead of using a chess library or even basic loops? That's not programming, that's digital masochism. The real checkmate here isn't on the board—it's the developer's sanity. Somewhere, a computer science professor just felt a disturbance in the force and doesn't know why.

The Great Escape From Algorithm 101
C++ Algorithms Programming
1 month ago 87.2K views 0 shares
The Great Escape From Algorithm 101
The professor asked for a pattern program, and this student just hard-coded every single line with printf statements. No loops, no logic, just brute force printing. And now they're running away from the teacher because they know what's coming. It's the coding equivalent of answering "what's 5+7?" by saying "I memorized that it's 12" instead of explaining addition. Sure, it works... technically. But you've missed the entire point of the exercise and any self-respecting CS professor is going to hunt you down for this crime against algorithms.

It Won’T Get Any More Compact.
Python Algorithms Programming Debugging Testing
1 month ago 103.3K views 0 shares
It Won’T Get Any More Compact.
Oh my goodness, this is peak programmer laziness at its finest! 😂 Instead of writing a proper validation function that checks if a number is an integer, some poor soul decided to hardcode EVERY POSSIBLE DECIMAL VALUE around 17 and 18 with error messages! The only value that returns True is exactly 18 (no decimals). The irony is that writing a simple isinstance(x, int) would be like 1000x more compact than this monstrosity. This is what happens when you code at 3am after your fifth energy drink! The "It Won't Get Any More Compact" title is just *chef's kiss* sarcastic perfection!

This Is What Hard Coding Looks Like
Programming Debugging Frontend Backend
1 month ago 80.7K views 0 shares
This Is What Hard Coding Looks Like
The ultimate programmer dad joke has arrived! This meme shows a mattress literally shaped like the letter "S" between two bed frames - making it "hard-coded" in the most physical sense possible. It's what happens when you take programming terms literally. This is exactly what your senior developer warned you about when they said "don't hardcode values!" Now we know why - your code ends up sleeping uncomfortably and waking up with back problems. The only thing more painful than maintaining this bed would be maintaining the legacy code it represents.