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Content IT'S A Frontend 15 IT.. BOTH? IT'S BOTH. IT'S A Backend HATE IT JS It's a Meteor!

Ah, the eternal JavaScript nightmare: NaN (Not a Number) - which ironically is a number type that doesn't equal itself. Because that makes perfect sense! The IEEE 754 floating-point standard really outdid itself here. "Let's create a special value that represents calculation errors but make it behave in the most counterintuitive ways possible!" My favorite part is JavaScript trying to be helpful: "You want to convert 'hello' to a number? Sure thing! Here's a NaN for your trouble. No errors thrown, just silent mathematical chaos." And then we wonder why our date calculations suddenly think it's the year NaN. The hex(983061) at the bottom is the cherry on top - it's 0xF00D61, or "FOOD A1". Even the hexadecimal is trolling us.

The wise master delivers the ultimate JavaScript existential crisis. Developers love blaming their tools rather than facing the harsh truth—maybe it's not the language that's broken, but your understanding of it. Sure, JavaScript has quirks (looking at you, type coercion and "==" vs "==="), but it powers basically the entire internet. That moment when you realize your hatred of JavaScript might just be a convenient shield for not wanting to learn its deeper patterns. Brutal philosophical truth bombs from Avatar: The Last Airbender we never expected.

Content How can I use Python to get the system hostname? Asked 9 years, 8 months ago Active 1 year, 4 months ago Viewed 525k times 698 I'm writing a chat program for a local network. I would like be able to identify computers and get the user-set computer name with Python. python hostname share edit follow flag 98 edited Sep 13 '16 at 16:00 Itay Grudev 5,455 4 39 76 asked Nov 24 '10 at 21:33 John 12.9k 10 40 63 add a comment start a bounty 11 Answers Active Oldest Votes 1064 Use socket and its gethostname () functionality. This will get the hostname of the computer where the Python interpreter is running: import socket print (socket. gethostname ()) V f9 share edit follow flag edited Feb 10 '15 at 23:02 the Tin Man 146k 30 192 272 answered Nov 24 '10 at 21:36 Alex 55.8k 45 143 174 70 well, that's not correct. It works for me offline and in home, but now I am a office and this returns a different host name. - DataGreed Jun 21 '12 at 13:39

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute TRAGEDY of frontend developers' social lives! 😭 The punchline is a DEVASTATING play on SQL's "JOIN" operation versus physically joining a table in real life. These poor souls can create breathtaking interfaces but can't figure out basic cafeteria mechanics! The horror! The irony! They spend all day connecting data with complex JavaScript but can't connect with ACTUAL HUMANS over lunch. It's the most dramatic case of professional skills NOT transferring to real life I've ever witnessed! Someone please send help... and maybe a tutorial on "How to Socialize: For People Who Only Talk to Browsers".