Python Or C++? The Speed Tow-Away

Content my linkedin profile R, python, javascript, shiny, dplyr, purrr, ditto, ggplot, d3, canvas, spark, sawk, pyspark, sparkly, lodash, lazy, bootstrap, jupyter, vulpix, git, flask, numpy, pandas, feebas, scikit, pm, bayes, h2o.ai, sparkling-water, tensorflow, keras, onyx, ekans, hadoop, scala, unity, metapod, gc, cct, krebase, neo4j, hadoop. I typically ask recruiters to point out which of these are pokemon.

Job hunting in tech: where you accidentally train the algorithm to think you hate every opportunity that exists. You dismiss one "Senior dotnet-ontwikkelaar" position because you don't speak Dutch, and suddenly the platform's like "noted, you clearly despise all backend roles forever." The real kicker? Half these jobs are probably the same role reposted by different recruiters, but you've now told the algorithm to hide ALL of them. Meanwhile, you're desperately refreshing the page wondering why there are no new postings. It's like playing whack-a-mole with your career prospects, except the moles are fighting back and winning. Pro tip: That "We won't show you this job again" button is basically a commitment ceremony. Choose wisely, because the job market isn't exactly overflowing with "AI-Driven Software Development Consultant" positions that you can afford to ghost.

Hollywood portrays hacking as this mystical green matrix of cascading characters, but the reality? Just some dev importing a package called "secrets" and printing a token. The absolute state of movie hacking vs actual coding is the biggest plot twist since finding out your production database wasn't actually backed up. That fancy "10000000" hex token would probably just return "password123" anyway.

Ah yes, the presidential decree of bad programming practices. Nothing says "Make Software Great Again" like starting arrays at 1 (a crime in most programming languages), using only global variables (the radioactive waste of code), and deploying untested code straight to production on a Friday (the ultimate "I hate my weekend" power move). It's basically an executive order to create job security through chaos. Ten years of debugging later, you'll still be finding remnants of this administration in your codebase.

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The circle of life, but make it programming. Strong men build C, which gives us the good times of stable systems. Good times make developers soft, so they create Python for "productivity." Python spawns AI hype, AI generates vibe-coded garbage that barely compiles, and suddenly we're in the bad times with weak devs who can't debug a segfault. Bad times forge strong men who go back to writing C with manual memory management. The cycle repeats. Somewhere, a Rust evangelist is crying because they didn't make the cut.