The Clipboard Catastrophe

So you're telling me that accessing an array with a negative index in JavaScript not only works but actually adds a property to the array? And then when you check the array, it shows you this cursed -1: 4 sitting there like it belongs? The bell curve perfectly captures the JavaScript experience: beginners think it's ridiculous (correct), experts also think it's ridiculous (also correct), but the middle crowd has Stockholm syndrome and will defend it with their lives. "It makes sense bro, everything in JS is an object!" Yeah, and that's exactly the problem. JavaScript treats arrays like objects because they are objects, so test[-1] = 4 is just adding a property named "-1" to your array object. It's technically in the spec, which somehow makes it worse.

Content When I was 4, my sister was 2. 1 am now 44. How old is my sister? Samuel Lipoff, studied at Harvard University Updated April 5, 2020 This is a tough one. She might be 42, but she could be 41 or 43 also, since you don't say when your birthday is and her birthday is. Also, she could be dead. Finally, you might have thought she was your sister but actually your mom had an affair with another man and the woman who is 1-3 younger than you is not actually your sister. But your mom may have given away your real sister for adoption, in which case she's probably older than you. See why it's tough? Finally, what if you think your sister is dead, but she actually has become an astronaut on a secret government project for near light-speed travel? Then your sister would be aging more slowly than you, so she could potentially be even younger than 41

Content Every time I see stuff like this it amazes me computers work at all... Jan 5, 2020, 9:49 AM V teaching sand to think was a mistake Jan 5, 2020, 9:49 AM ProdrammerHumor.io

The eternal struggle of a desperate coder, captured in one image! On the left, we have LLMs promising to "help with programming questions" but won't actually insult you (how considerate). On the right, StackOverflow boasting it's "accurate" and "used by people who know what they're doing" while flexing knowledge of "even the most obscure languages." It's the perfect illustration of our coding dilemma: get polite, possibly hallucinated answers from an AI that treats you like a fragile child, or brave StackOverflow where your "simple question" will be closed as duplicate, marked as trivial, and someone will suggest you shouldn't be programming at all. Choose your poison!

When your debug statement has served its purpose, there's only one thing left to do: bid it farewell with a dramatic console.log. That "hereeeeeeeeeee" is the digital equivalent of a cowboy riding off into the sunset – it's done its job tracking down that elusive bug that was making your code behave like it was written after a three-day caffeine bender. And just like Woody, you know deep down you'll be adding another one two minutes later when the next bug appears. The circle of debugging life continues.

Content ARGUING WITH A DEVELOPER WITH 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WHEN IM STILL 20 YEARS OLD