The Art Of "Fixing" Lint Errors

Content 78 What's the difference between JavaScript and Java? lava javascript 303 share edited Sep 4 40 at 19:29 Peter Mortensen 11.3k 16 78 110 asked Oct 28 '08 at 22:10 Guy 27.1k 0 77 0 213 275 408 One is essentially a toy, designed for writing small pieces of code, and traditionally used and abused bv Inexperienced programmers. The other is a scripting language for web browsers. share answered Oct 28 '08 at 22:14 Shog9 4 117k 30 197 225

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The classic "Epic Handshake" meme gets a deliciously ironic twist here. On one side, we have the noble summer job warrior, barely putting in effort at the fulfillment center. On the other, the valiant frontend developer, creating pixel-perfect UI while ignoring best practices. Both united in the sacred art of "loading packages lazily" - which is either slacking off at work or using lazy loading in code, depending on which arm you're looking at. The duality of half-assery creating one magnificent whole-ass disaster. It's the beautiful union of two completely different worlds reaching the exact same mediocre outcome through entirely different means.

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The eternal lie of the web. You click "don't show again" on a cookie notice, refresh the page, and boom—there it is again. It's like websites have the memory of a goldfish but only for user preferences. Meanwhile, they somehow remember that one embarrassing product you looked at 7 years ago to show in targeted ads. The irony of a site claiming it "doesn't use cookies" while clearly not remembering your preference is just *chef's kiss*. The digital equivalent of telling someone your name and them asking what your name is 30 seconds later.

Ah, the transformative power of programming languages on the human soul. C++ ages you like you've spent 40 years in a windowless basement debugging memory leaks. JavaScript turns you into someone who's clearly seen things no human should witness—probably undefined is not a function at 2AM. Java makes you oddly corporate and satisfied, like someone who's found comfort in typing AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean 50 times a day. And then there's Python—turning regular humans into those insufferable people who can't stop smiling because they solved in 3 lines what took you 300 in C++. The kind of person who says "isn't that elegant?" unironically.