November 18th 2025: A Developer Story

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

This is the perfect visualization of eventual consistency in distributed systems! The sign claims 236 people drowned, but somehow 237 weren't wearing life jackets. That off-by-one error is basically what happens when your database nodes haven't synced yet. "Don't worry, the data will be consistent... eventually™." Just like how this lake's tragic statistics will probably get fixed in the next write operation. Or maybe they're counting a future drowning victim who's already decided not to wear a life jacket but hasn't fallen in yet. Talk about pessimistic locking!

Content Posted by utypical 5 hours ago 9,3 6 8 2 304 I made a chrome extension that lets you copy text directly from Youtube videos I was frustrated having to type out code and links from coding tutorials on Youtube, so I made a chrome extension that lets you copy text directly from the video! It uses the Google Cloud Vision API to detect the text, then renders the text as HTML on top of the video uvtvoical carefully, he's a hero

Content Python: What if everything was a dict? Java: What if everything was an object? JavaScript: What if everything was a dict and an object? C: What if everything was a pointer? APL: What if everything was an array? Tcl: What if everything was a string? Prolog: What if everything was a term? LISP: What if everything was a pair? Scheme: What if everything was a function? Haskell: What if everything was a monad? Assembly: What if everything was a register? Cog: What if everything was a typeproposition? COBOL: WHAT IF EVERYTHING WAS UPPERCASE? C: What if everything was like Java, but different? Ruby: What if everything was monkey patched? Pascal: BEGIN What if everything was structured? END C: What if we added everything to the language? C11: What if we forgot to stop adding stuff? Rust: What if garbage collection didn't exist? Go: What if we tried designing C a second time? Perl: What if shell, sed, and awk were one language? Perl6: What if we took the joke too far? PHP: What if we wanted to make SQL injection easier? VB: What if we wanted to allow anyone to program? VB.NET: What if we wanted to stop them again? Forth: What if everything was a stack? ColorForth: What if the stack was green? PostScript: What if everything was printed at 600dpi? XSLT: What if everything was an XML element? Make: What if everything was a dependency? m4: What if everything was incomprehensibly quoted? Scala: What if Haskell ran on the JVM? Clojure: What if LISP ran on the JVM? Lua: What if game developers got tired of C? Mathematica: What if Stephen Wolfram invented everything? Malbolge: What if there is no god? nixcraft ProarammerHumor.io

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 literally streams the entire planet Earth from the cloud in real-time using Bing Maps data, creating a photorealistic 1:1 scale replica of our world. Meanwhile, Call of Duty games are out here demanding 250GB of storage just to render the same three maps you'll play on repeat. The irony? A flight sim that lets you explore literally anywhere on Earth takes up less disk space than a shooter where you're stuck in the same warehouse for the 47th time. Cloud computing finally proving its worth—who knew the solution to bloated game installs was just... not installing the bloat?

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