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The Worst Possible Way Of Declaring Main Method

The Worst Possible Way Of Declaring Main Method
When your code reviewer spots that unholy abomination of a main method declaration in your pull request. That if (name__ == "__main__"): check is standard Python boilerplate, but seeing it written with those underscores and that formatting is like witnessing someone eat cereal with a fork. It's technically functional, but fundamentally wrong on every level. The kind of code that makes senior developers wake up in cold sweats at 3 AM.

The UUID Inception Function

The UUID Inception Function
Ah, the elegant art of naming variables. This function has achieved peak redundancy with a UUID parameter named uuid of type UUID that returns a UUID containing a UUID with the value uuid. It's like saying "I'd like to order an order of ordered orders, please." The compiler is probably in therapy now.

The Snake Case Prophet

The Snake Case Prophet
The holy war of naming conventions rages on! Some brave soul dared to preach the gospel of snake_case in a world dominated by camelCase zealots. Just like in biblical times, speaking the truth about proper variable naming gets you crucified in code reviews. The underscores shall inherit the codebase! Meanwhile, the PascalCase disciples and kebab-case heretics watch from the sidelines as the great naming schism continues to divide developer communities since the dawn of programming.

Same With New Line Before Curly Braces

Same With New Line Before Curly Braces
The holy war that never ends. One dev asks if you use camelCase or PascalCase, and the other responds with the only sane answer: following your team's coding conventions. The first guy is basically that colleague who will die on the hill of their personal style preferences while the rest of us just want the codebase to be consistent so we can go home at a reasonable hour.

Master Vs Main: We Are Not The Same

Master Vs Main: We Are Not The Same
Different motivations, same git commit. When GitHub changed default branch names from "master" to "main" in 2020, people had opinions . Some argued historical connotations, others just wanted technical consistency. Meanwhile, this developer's over here with the galaxy brain take that branch hierarchy is a social construct. Every branch deserves equal rights to be merged, cherry-picked, or abandoned in development limbo.

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

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. 💀

Totally Valid F Sharp Name

Totally Valid F Sharp Name
The devil's promise vs. F# reality. Sure, your kid will use "meaningful variable names"—right up until they discover functional programming. Then it's single-letter variables and ASCII art demons summoned directly into your codebase. Nothing says "senior developer" like code that requires an exorcist to debug. That ASCII devil is just the compiler's way of saying "I understand this perfectly, but good luck to the next poor soul who inherits this repo."

Why Use Few Letters When Many Will Do?

Why Use Few Letters When Many Will Do?
OH MY GODDD! Microsoft's obsession with verbosity is the GREATEST TRAGEDY of our time! 😱 Why use simple, elegant commands like 'wget' when you can TORTURE your fingers typing 'Invoke-WebRequest'?! PowerShell developers sitting in their evil lair like "MUAHAHA, let's make them type SEVENTEEN EXTRA CHARACTERS!" The dark side Kermit perfectly represents that Microsoft executive who wakes up every morning and chooses VIOLENCE against our wrists and sanity. Brevity? Never heard of her!

The Missing 'F' Disaster

The Missing 'F' Disaster
Ah, the eternal confusion between MPREG and FFMPEG! For the uninitiated, FFMPEG is that magical Swiss Army knife command-line tool that processes video and audio files, while MPREG is... something entirely different that you probably shouldn't Google at work. The green logo is desperately trying to clarify its identity crisis while developers everywhere accidentally typo their way into questionable search results. Countless terminal sessions have been abandoned after that fateful missing 'F' led to unspeakable horrors. Remember folks: precision matters in command-line tools AND search queries!

Shorten Your Function Name

Shorten Your Function Name
The classic programmer journey from self-righteousness to self-sabotage in three easy steps: First, you write a verbose, descriptive function name that perfectly documents what it does. You feel virtuous. Clean code! Self-documenting! Then, you realize typing that monstrosity repeatedly is killing your productivity. So you create a wrapper function with a shorter name. Problem solved! Finally, you're faced with your creation in production code: if (cumming()) - and suddenly you remember why code reviews exist. Your future maintainers will either die laughing or hunt you down with pitchforks. And this, friends, is why naming things remains one of the two hardest problems in computer science.

The Great Debugging Escape

The Great Debugging Escape
Nothing says "I value our friendship" like asking for help with undocumented code featuring variables like x1 , temp , and doTheThing() . That slow Kermit retreat is the physical manifestation of my soul leaving my body when I realize I'm about to waste 3 hours of my life deciphering someone's digital hieroglyphics. Pro tip: if you want help debugging, maybe name your variables something other than "stuff" and "idk" first.

The Evolution Of Conditional Intelligence

The Evolution Of Conditional Intelligence
Regular Pooh: Cramming all your logic into a single conditional statement like some kind of barbaric code caveman. Tuxedo Pooh: Creating descriptive boolean variables that make your code self-documenting and actually readable by humans who aren't trying to decode the Da Vinci code. The real high IQ move isn't writing clever one-liners—it's writing code that won't make your future self contemplate a career change when you revisit it in six months.