From Python Paradise To Pointer Purgatory

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The legacy of zero-indexing strikes again! While most humans count from 1, programmers know arrays start at 0 in most languages. This poor child's fate was sealed when mom insisted on starting her array at 1 instead of 0 during pregnancy. The result? A kid destined to commit the cardinal sin of programming—using 1-based indexing. It's basically hereditary at this point. That kid is going to grow up to be the colleague who writes for(i=1; i and makes everyone's eye twitch during code reviews.

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Content Interviewer: What's your biggest strength? Me: I'm an expert in machine learning. Interviewer: What's 9 10? Me: Its 3. Interviewer: Not even close. It's 19. Me: It's 16. Interviewer: Wrong. Its still 19. Me: It's 18. Interviewer: No, it's 19. Me: it's 19. Interviewer: You're hired

The modern tech interview process in one painful frame. Looking at those shooting stars and wishing for the impossible – passing a coding interview without spending months memorizing obscure tree traversal algorithms that you'll never use in the actual job. Ten years of experience? Great! Now reverse this linked list while I watch you sweat. Meanwhile, the actual job is 90% googling how to center a div and wondering why your production code suddenly stopped working after a dependency updated by one minor version.