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Developers Always Manage To Make It Work

6 days ago 135.3K views 0 shares

The absolute pinnacle of software engineering isn't elegant code—it's the unholy workarounds that ship products. Fallout 3 devs couldn't implement a working train, so they just strapped a train model onto an NPC's head and made him run underground. The player never sees the difference. After 15 years in the industry, I can confirm this is basically how 90% of production software works. Your banking app? Probably running on a hamster wearing a server rack hat somewhere.

Dividing By Almost Zero: A Mathematical Loophole

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18 days ago 146.1K views 0 shares

Dividing By Almost Zero: A Mathematical Loophole

When you can't divide by zero, but 0.0000000000000001 is basically the same thing, right? This dev is like "I'm not breaking math, I'm just... bending it a little." The classic programmer solution: if the rules say you can't do something, just find the closest loophole. It's the computational equivalent of "I'm not touching you" but with numbers that would make mathematicians wake up in cold sweats. And the best part? It probably works... until it doesn't, and then you get to spend three days debugging why your rotation calculations are off by exactly one pixel in very specific scenarios.

MFW When I'm Asking A Question In A C++ Sub

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1 month ago 201.1K views 0 shares

MFW When I'm Asking A Question In A C++ Sub

That smug feeling when you post a "help me fix this code" question on a C++ forum, but it's actually a homework assignment you're trying to get solved for free. Those poor souls thinking they're helping a fellow developer in need, when they're really just doing your assignment. The digital equivalent of tricking someone into carrying your furniture because you told them you're "just rearranging things."

My Favorite Programming Pattern

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5 months ago 130.7K views 0 shares

Oh. My. GOD! The absolute AUDACITY of this code! 💀 Everyone's losing their minds over a horrifying bug, coffee guy is spitting his drink everywhere, people are LITERALLY pulling their hair out... and there sits little Timmy, smugly watching his masterpiece unfold. The diabolical plot twist? That precious little monster wrote code that INTENTIONALLY runs slower when people are watching! It's the digital equivalent of your car making that weird noise until you take it to the mechanic! Honestly, this kid deserves either immediate termination or a promotion to senior architect. There is no in-between.

Sometimes I Just Can't Believe That These Solutions Work

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5 months ago 154.3K views 0 shares

Sometimes I Just Can't Believe That These Solutions Work

Left side: You meticulously calculating digital roots by converting to string, looping through digits, summing them up, and recursing until you get a single digit. Right side: That one-liner wizard who knows that n%9 or n and 9 does the exact same thing because of mathematical properties nobody remembers from school. Your code works. Their code works faster and makes you question your entire career. Just another Tuesday in programming.

The Very Best Math Library

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6 months ago 153.8K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. Someone actually coded the entire value of π using variable names that spell out "negative eight"! 🤯 This absolute GENIUS created a JavaScript abomination where they've defined a bunch of constants with seemingly random fractional values, then multiplied them together in a way that spells out "negative eight" but ACTUALLY calculates π! The comment even brags it "works for -11 to 11" like they've created some mathematical masterpiece while committing crimes against code readability! This is what happens when math nerds get bored on a Tuesday afternoon. Somewhere, a code reviewer is having a nervous breakdown.

The Six-Second AI Illusion

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7 months ago 229.6K views 0 shares

The classic "it works on my machine" problem just got upgraded to "it works in my demo"! Nothing says "cutting-edge AI" like a good old time.sleep(6) to simulate processing. The presenter's accidental Ctrl+C revealed the smoke and mirrors behind the curtain - that magical AI was just Python taking a 6-second nap! This is the tech equivalent of finding out the "live" concert was actually lip-synced. Next time they'll probably add print("AI THINKING VERY HARD") for extra realism.

Showing My Friend My Foolproof Parse Int Method

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7 months ago 185.6K views 0 shares

Showing My Friend My Foolproof Parse Int Method

The eternal struggle between doing things right and doing things that work. Instead of using parseInt() or Number() like a civilized developer, this mad genius is just removing the quotation marks with replaceAll() to convert a string to a number. It's the coding equivalent of using a hammer to screw in a lightbulb - horrifying yet somehow it works. The face on the left is every senior dev witnessing this crime against programming humanity, while the face on the right is the junior who's just proud they "solved" the problem without reading the docs.

Street Magic: JavaScript Edition

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7 months ago 218.7K views 0 shares

The real street magic here is using Unicode character references as object keys to confuse even "super senior JS developers." That code is pure evil - using those weird \u escape sequences to access object properties, then doing some arithmetic with them. The magician knew exactly what he was doing. Nothing makes frontend devs question their life choices faster than JavaScript's object property access quirks combined with Unicode escape sequences. And they fell right into his trap, going from "we can solve any expression" to "OMG" in 0.2 seconds flat. Classic JavaScript humiliation in the wild.

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