My Flirt Skills (Or Lack Thereof)

That moment when your elegant university CS theories get absolutely demolished by industry reality. The top shows a pristine school bus (your theoretical knowledge) calmly sitting on tracks, while the bottom shows that same bus getting obliterated by the freight train of real-world development. Seven years into my career and I'm still waiting to implement that perfect red-black tree I spent weeks studying. Meanwhile, I'm knee-deep in legacy code written by someone who clearly thought variable naming was optional and comments were for the weak.

Content EXIT CONDITION THAT'S IT! WAITI RECURSION WAITI 6 THERE 1S NO I'M GOING INI RECURSION THAT'S IT!

Content SWE: Brag about 400k salaries, remote work, 10 hours per week Everyone: switches to SWE, saturating the job market SWE:

Content CREATE A USER NAMED "obfect Object That's the evilest thing I cantimagine.-seam. ungilip.com

Content Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why.

Content sal Sprint 8:06 AM Tweet 4 77 Juozas Kaziukenas juokaz If having a coffee in the morning doesn't wake you up, try deleting a table in a production database instead. 111617, 4:34 PM 1,345 Retweets 2,713 Likes 17