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I Am Not A Hacker

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2 days ago 76.8K views 0 shares

I Am Not A Hacker

Nothing screams "elite hacker" to non-tech folks like a black terminal with white text. I've literally had people back away nervously when I'm just checking disk space with df -h . It's like showing a calculator to someone in the 1600s—instant witchcraft trial. Ten years writing enterprise software and people still think I'm breaking into the Pentagon when I'm actually just trying to remember the syntax for tar for the 500th time.

JavaScript Is Java

Javascript Webdev Programming Java Frontend

17 days ago 63.0K views 0 shares

JavaScript Is Java

Academic literature with the precision of a drunk dartboard player. Highlighting "JavaScript (or Java)" as if they're interchangeable? Sure, and a bicycle is just a motorcycle without the engine. This is the same energy as saying "HTML is my favorite programming language" at a developer conference and watching the room collectively twitch. The relationship between Java and JavaScript is approximately the same as that between car and carpet - they share four letters and absolutely nothing else. Next chapter: "Python - a reptile that writes code."

Java Is To JavaScript As Car Is To Carpet

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29 days ago 81.0K views 0 shares

Java Is To JavaScript As Car Is To Carpet

The meme brutally murders the misconception that Java and JavaScript are related just because they share "Java" in their names. It's like assuming cars and carpets are related because they both start with "car." The naming similarity is purely coincidental—JavaScript was named during the peak of Java's popularity as a marketing gimmick. One's a compiled, statically-typed language that runs on a virtual machine; the other's an interpreted, dynamically-typed language that powers the web. Different ancestors, different purposes, different ecosystems. Next up: explaining why hamburgers contain no ham.