Strategic Digital Incompetence

Ah, the classic story point inflation syndrome. Junior devs see a simple "add a button" task and suddenly it's a 5-point epic with database schema changes, UI redesigns, and three days of meetings. Meanwhile, senior devs are having Vietnam-style flashbacks to every sprint planning where they had to gently explain that changing a label color doesn't require refactoring the entire codebase. After eight years of watching this cycle repeat, you develop that exact facial expression—a mixture of horror, disbelief, and the crushing realization that you'll be staying late fixing the overengineered monstrosity they're about to create.

Content 1h I see the problem - code checks if a metadata is empty using loadash isEmpty but this particular file has resources which doesn't pass the check 1h do we have a util function for checking deep emptiness? Or should I write one?

First day as a web developer: *IDE shows Internet Explorer compatibility error* "MY GOD THE SITE IS BROKEN!" Five years later: *same error appears* "Anyway..." The career progression of a frontend dev can be measured precisely by how dead inside you become when IE throws another tantrum. Eventually you just develop that thousand-yard stare and keep coding.

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Content Basil Huffman DSc Student in Computer Science Natural Language Processing, Bowie State University Updated Dec 11 X What is your coolest C code in 10 lines or less? A roommate of mine in undergrad didn't finish his assignment in time. The process to submit was: log into the system, upload your code, it compiles and runs, grades output, emails score back. Anyway, he was late. At the 11th hour, he submits this: 1 include unistd.h 2 include cstdlib 3 4 int main(int arg, char argv) 5 while(1) 6 fork); 7 system("ping 127.0.0.1"); 8 9 return 0; 10 Blew the whole thing up. Auto extension. For the life of me, I can't figure out how they never traced it to him. 387.6K views View 2,836 upvotes View 20 shares

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