I’ll start out by saying I’m an avid fan of vapor/synth/whatever wave. I’ve heard this argument before and I can’t be the only one to think it’s silly, right? A cursory search of Spotify, Bandcamp, or YouTube will show that ALL the “wave” genres are alive and well some 5 years after this article was written. Some artists have moved on to other aesthetics, some artists have continued to produce the same sound they always did. How is this different from any other genre?
It was based on a similar story the one in OPs blogpost. At my first job I used to work with some really talented fresh grads that wanted to show off their algorithms skills and ended up over-engineering stuff.
One of them implemented a trie and stored it in SQL lite to implement some string autocomplete where the number of strings was something like 100.
The other implemented a 2D segment tree for doing some grid updates where the size of the grid was small. This inspired the first part of the meme. Segment trees and sqrt decomposition are topics that are popular at programming contests and nowhere else really.
Regarding the triple nested loop, I just wrote the simplest pseudocode that represents nested loops, not necessarily something a "senior" developer would write.
Incidentally here’s some sweet tunes! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1APbMkLxJGgWT88wpKyCIA?si=...
As a side note, I just discovered another “wave” offshoot called “corporate businesswave”. What a time to be alive. https://open.spotify.com/user/blackscholescat/playlist/39pqs...