The CS Education Difficulty Curve

The grass is always greener, isn't it? Network engineers diving into programming get a magical unicorn wonderland experience. Meanwhile, programmers trying to learn networking find themselves in a literal dumpster fire. After 15 years in tech, I can confirm both are true. Network engineers think variables and functions are delightful toys compared to troubleshooting why a packet decided to take a vacation somewhere between routers. And programmers who venture into networking suddenly discover that "unreachable host" could mean 47 different things, none of which make any logical sense. The real truth? We're all suffering. Just in different colorful hells.

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What looks like a chaotic mess of variables is actually a brilliant mathematical prank. When you run this JavaScript code, those seemingly random fractions spell out n*e*g*a*t*i*v*e + e*i*g*h*t + e*l*e*v*e*n , which evaluates to 3 for inputs -11 to 11. This is peak "write-only code" - perfectly functional but practically unmaintainable. The creator spent hours crafting these precise fractions so each variable represents exactly the right letter value in the mathematical expression. It's like hiding a math formula in plain sight while making your code reviewer contemplate a career change.

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Somewhere in Nebraska, a lone COBOL developer is literally holding up the digital world like Atlas himself. While tech bros brag about their microservices architecture, this unsung hero is silently preventing the financial apocalypse with code older than most developers' parents. Banks don't send thank you cards for averting economic collapse every Tuesday at 2 AM when the batch job mysteriously fails. The real infrastructure isn't in the cloud—it's in Nebraska, running on a language that uses "PIC X(30)" to define a string because it was cool in 1959.