Covering While The Front-End Guy For The Project Is On Vacation

That awkward moment when the conference slide exposes the entire industry's dirty secret. Big data has become tech's favorite buzzword, with companies frantically collecting petabytes of information while quietly panicking about what to actually do with it all. Meanwhile, data scientists are in the corner writing elaborate Python scripts to justify their existence while the execs nod knowingly during presentations about "leveraging synergistic data-driven insights." The truth hurts so good!

Content rAskReddit Posted by uworldtraveler100 10h What technology are you shocked has not advanced yet? 26.8k J 14.6k Share Award BEST COMMENTS RegulatoryCapture 4h A 1 Award The legal code. Computer programmers have come up with beautiful collab- orative change tracking systems (like git) that let you easily make changes to a huge base of code, track who changed what, submit and resolve conflicting versions of updates, etc. But when we pass a new bill that replaces or modifies an old law, it is always some 300 page document with pages of "Subsection F Paragraph 3 will be modified to read 'XYZ' Why not put the laws into a git repository and make it easy for bills to just modify the existing history to say what you want it to say? And why not have the transparency to see exactly what changes and WHO implemented that change? Want to slip some pork for your district into an unrelated bill? Well, that edit is going to have your name on it. Of course it will never happen. Reply 4 928 J imtn 1h Who the heck wrote this ridiculous bill? git blame Ah. I did. 217

Content QURY "The Grip "I write all my apps in C" MOOST. RACIn changelog.com 33 79 "Memory-safe languages are simply too slow"

The genius of this meme lies in the vending machine's slot #404 being empty. In HTTP status codes, 404 means "Not Found" - it's what you get when a web resource doesn't exist. So the empty drink slot is literally a "404 Drink Not Found" error in real life! Non-technical parents would never understand why that's comedy gold. It's like encountering a runtime exception while trying to quench your thirst. The machine successfully returned bottles at positions 403 (Forbidden) and 405 (Method Not Allowed), but your GET request for a beverage at 404 failed spectacularly.

Content node modules Python devs What an awful and impractical way to manage dependencies. Python devs So, as I was saying, just install Anaconda to manage your Python installs and use a virtualenv on each project to treat them as a separate Python install and to have different versions of a package. It's just about 400mb each

The heroic handshake between Frontend and Backend devs with JSON as their sacred treaty is what keeps the internet running. Meanwhile, the "Full Stack" dev is just Tom from Tom & Jerry, hiding under the table and pretending they're equally proficient at both. Sure, they can build an entire app, but with the CSS skills of a backend dev and the database design of a frontend dev. It's the tech equivalent of being mediocre at two instruments instead of mastering one. But hey, companies love hiring one person to do two jobs for 1.2x the salary!