That feeling when you realize how something actually works and you sit staring into one spot wondering how the fuck did any of your code ever run.

Got praised today by an important guy in my company for writing understandable javascript code. He said he'd gladly learn js if I were to teach it.
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If you ever get tasked with something you don't know how to do, know that it is never your fault. The management, team lead or HR screwed up.

So far, no one has surpassed the ultimately blasphemous practice of
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I once single-handedly developed an entire drag-and-drop ui for creation, provisioning and control of virtual datacenters and all its infrastructure. Other people developed backend and database and the whole project took about 10 months, but about three weeks before we had a working, stable release the company decided to cancel an entire project.
We thoroughly researched the market, and at that time there was no better such solution. We would have made something extraordinary.
Especially because it worked with VMWare.

What if God is actually an average developer working for a company which creates worlds and at first it all ran fine but then the support period expired and wasn't renewed and now shit's hitting the fan and nobody gives a fuck.

Introduce a subject called "proper use of search engines" and make every kid attend it regularly, just like gym classes.