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Content Is it time to bring CARS and GUNS into JavaScript? JavaScript has gone from a cute little scripting language to an unstoppable behemoth. But is it doing enough to attract the male audience? The marketing materials out there are all targeting women. Look at React's cute and curvy logo or Vue's pastel colors. And don't even get me started on Github's "octopus cat" logo. Clearly, something needs to be done to attract men. And what do men love? Cars and guns. But first, let's take a step back. Are men really better programmers? To put it bluntly, yes. There's a lot of debate on this topic, but the scientific evidence is

Remember when web development meant just grabbing your Laravel briefcase and heading out the door? Fast forward to today, and you're drowning in a sea of frameworks and libraries! SpongeBob perfectly captures the evolution from the simpler "Then" days with just Laravel to the chaotic "Now" where you're bombarded with Express.js, Next.js, GraphQL, REST APIs, multiple Node.js versions, and React with its infinity symbol (because the learning curve truly never ends). It's like going from carrying a single briefcase to juggling flaming chainsaws while riding a unicycle. The thousand-yard stare in modern SpongeBob's eyes is the universal expression of every developer who just wanted to update a simple dependency and ended up rebuilding their entire tech stack.

The gospel truth of UI design hanging on a wall for all to see! If your users need a manual to figure out your interface, you've already failed. It's like dating someone who needs footnotes to understand your jokes - just painful for everyone involved. The number of "intuitive" interfaces I've seen that require a PhD to navigate could fill a library of disappointment. Remember folks: if your grandma can't figure it out after three glasses of wine, it's not user-friendly, it's user-hostile.

The unholy trinity of weakness! Just as vampires hiss at sunlight and Superman crumbles near kryptonite, programmers apparently recoil in horror at light-themed IDEs. The punchline hinges on the double meaning of "bugs" – both the insects attracted to light and the code defects that seem to multiply when you dare to code with a white background. Dark mode fanatics will feel deeply validated. Meanwhile, light theme users are being called out as masochists who enjoy debugging at 300% difficulty.

Content - ballbase 72 points 1 day ago What does sacrifice child mean in this context? permalink source embed save save-RES report give award reply hide child comments -J Schnickatavick 234 points 1 day ago (last edited 1 day ago) I don't know the term "sacrifice", but generally killing a child means that a parent process needs to terminate a secondary (child) process that it started. I would assume based on context that a sacrifice is just ending a child process to save memory? Regardless, threading has some of the most messed up terminology for seemingly no reason. It's the only place where "killing orphans" or "zombie children" are normal terms permalink source embed save save-Res parent report give award reply hide child comments - TechCubeTetrabyte us 61 points 1 day ago Zombie children? Like, unaccounted for by the OS? permalink source embed save save-RES parent report give award reply hide child comments - Schnickatavick 128 points 1 day ago - It's a child process that finished its task and closed, but the parent process hasn't acknowledged it yet. It leaves it in this awkward state where it's terminated (dead) but it still has to hang around in memory (like a zombie) until the parent process can receive the child's "return" values, which let's the OS wipe it from memory, which is called reaping. Which is another messed up term, the OS is literally a "reaper" for dead processes? Who named this stuff? permalink source embed save saveRES parent report give award reply hide child comments - TerrorBite 55 points 1 day ago - The child itself has already died or been killed at that point; what isn't released yet is the child's entry in the PID table, as the return code (which the parent needs to read) needs to be stored somewhere. So the only thing the zombie process is taking up at that point, is a PID number and a few kB at most of metadata in the kernel. You can't kill a zombie process, because it's already dead. The only way to get rid of it is to kill the lazy parent; the zombie will then be re-parented to init, which will clean it up immediately. Dermalink source embed unsave parent report give award reply hide child comments - Schnickatavick 69 points 1 day ago The only way to get rid of it is to kill the lazy parent The child itself has already died or been killed the zombie will then be re-parented See! What's with this phrasing?! But yeah, that's exactly right Dermalink source embed unsave parent report oive award rediv nice child comments

Content https:www.infoworld.comarticle 3713203white house-urges -developers-to-dump-c-and-c.html White House urges developers to dump C and C Rust Programmers: