Compression Memes

Posts tagged with Compression

When The First Year CS Student Asks What Is A Zip File

Programming Algorithms

6 days ago 58.8K views 0 shares

When The First Year CS Student Asks What Is A Zip File

That moment when you realize you've been in this industry so long that basic concepts have become ancient artifacts. The look of existential dread when a freshman asks what a zip file is... like watching someone question why we still use wheels on cars. Nothing makes you feel more like a digital dinosaur than explaining compression algorithms to kids who grew up with unlimited cloud storage. And here I am, remembering when we passed code around on actual floppy disks.

Until Death

Java Programming Backend

13 days ago 74.2K views 0 shares

Until Death

The lifecycle of a Java developer's soul! First you're all excited about Person.exe because you think you've built something executable. Then reality hits and you're zipping up your code in desperation. Finally, your spirit gets permanently stored in a Person.jar file – where dreams and heap space go to die. The real reason Java developers drink so much coffee is to cope with being trapped in tiny JAR prisons for eternity.