Historical reference Memes

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First They Came For The Em Dashes

Programming Webdev Frontend

10 days ago 136.5K views 0 shares

First They Came For The Em Dashes

OMG, this is the MOST DRAMATIC poem of programmer persecution complex I've ever seen! 😭 It's a parody of the famous "First they came..." Holocaust poem but about PUNCTUATION and CODING, which is just SO EXTRA I can't even! The meme tragically chronicles the downfall of civilization through typography—first the em dashes (—) disappear, then the artists, then writers, until finally... THE PROGRAMMERS! And by then there's no one left to create a Stack Overflow thread about it! The absolute TRAGEDY of it all! *faints dramatically onto keyboard*

The Dictator's Guide To Efficient Sorting

Algorithms Math Programming

5 months ago 131.0K views 0 shares

The Dictator's Guide To Efficient Sorting

Oh, the brilliance of "StalinSort" - where elements that don't conform to the expected order simply... disappear . It's a historical algorithm joke that's both O(n) efficient and politically incorrect! The algorithm "eliminates" non-conforming elements rather than rearranging them, which is a dark reference to Stalin's purges where people who didn't fall in line were removed from society (and often from photos). Technically, it's not even a sorting algorithm - it's just filtering with dictatorial characteristics. The kind of code that would get flagged in a code review faster than you can say "comrade".