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OH. MY. GOD. Someone actually coded the entire value of π using variable names that spell out "negative eight"! 🤯 This absolute GENIUS created a JavaScript abomination where they've defined a bunch of constants with seemingly random fractional values, then multiplied them together in a way that spells out "negative eight" but ACTUALLY calculates π! The comment even brags it "works for -11 to 11" like they've created some mathematical masterpiece while committing crimes against code readability! This is what happens when math nerds get bored on a Tuesday afternoon. Somewhere, a code reviewer is having a nervous breakdown.

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The corporate facade vs. the chaotic reality behind it. Up top, we've got the slick "fully automated database update pipeline" that management brags about in meetings. Down below? The truth emerges - it's just a janky cron job, a handful of Python scripts held together with digital duct tape, and that one mysterious shell alias nobody dares to touch because the last person who wrote it left the company in 2014. The whole system would collapse if not for that poor intern who keeps manually poking it with a stick every few hours. Enterprise-grade automation at its finest!

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Content mathew mathewmastodon.social 1 came up with a single pass O(n) sort algorithm I call StalinSort. You iterate down the list of elements checking if they're in order. Any element which is out of order is eliminated. At the end you have a sorted list.

Content You don't have to debug your code if you never write your program.