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Content Dan grapplingdev 18h The most bizarre coding interview I've ever done was at Facebook when as usual I asked a candidate to write in any language of their choice... And they nonchalantly said "I'll write it in Redstone", to which I almost let loose a chuckle until...

Content HEY LOOK I REVIEWED YOUR CODE AND DELETED A FEW USELESS FUNCTIONS NO, I DON'T KNOW WHY... NICE! ISIT WORKING 2 GOOD. NOW PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR MODIFICATIONS AND NEVER TOUCH MY CODE AGAIN THEWORKPLACECOMICS

Content Patio Fire Lights Been Here 9 Years Still have No Idea

Content Where's the fun in just knowing what the code is supposed to do? Essential Excuses for Not Writing Documentation O RLY? ThePracticalDev

Content Half full OPTIMIST Glass of water REALIST Half empty PESSIMIST The glass is too big Computer scientist

Cloudflare's internet-breaking moment brought to you by Rust's famous "safety" features. That innocent .unwrap() call just took down half the web because someone forgot error handling isn't optional even in a "memory-safe" language. Nothing says "enterprise-ready" like a single unhandled error cascading into a global 5xx festival. Somewhere a senior dev is muttering "this is why we can't have nice things" while frantically rolling back to the version that didn't implode when fed 200+ features. Remember kids: unwrap() in production is just panic() with extra steps.