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Who Would Win
php Math Webdev Backend Programming
1 day ago 56.2M views 0 shares
Who Would Win
On the left: beautiful matrix multiplication with row and column vectors elegantly combining to form the product matrix. On the right: PHP, a language that's been around since 1995 and somehow still powers like 77% of the web despite everyone constantly roasting it. The joke here is that no matter how complex your mathematical algorithms are, they're probably gonna end up running on some ancient PHP codebase that's been held together with duct tape and prayers since the MySpace era. You can have the most sophisticated linear algebra operations, but at the end of the day, they're getting served by a language where array functions can't decide if they want underscores or not (array_map vs arraymap anyone?). Spoiler alert: PHP wins. It always wins. Not because it's better, but because it refuses to die. It's the cockroach of programming languages.

The Inception Of Web Development
Javascript Webdev Frontend React Programming
1 year ago 338.0K views 0 shares
The Inception Of Web Development
First you learn HTML. Cool. Then JavaScript. Nice. Then you discover you can put JavaScript inside HTML with <script> tags. Wait what? Then you're told about EJS where you write JavaScript inside HTML... but differently? And just when your brain is about to recover, JSX comes along and says "how about writing HTML inside your JavaScript?" The circle of confusion is now complete. No wonder that cat looks like it's questioning its entire existence. The modern web stack isn't a technology—it's a psychological experiment to see how much recursive madness developers will tolerate before they switch to gardening as a career.

Basically Ruby On Rails
Ruby Webdev Backend Programming Hardware
1 year ago 500.5K views 2 shares
Basically Ruby On Rails
The Ruby on Rails philosophy in one image: why bother optimizing your code when you can just throw more CPU cores at it? This meme perfectly captures the "Rails magic" approach – your app runs like a three-legged dog until you upgrade your server. Then suddenly it's "fast enough" and everyone pretends the code isn't a dumpster fire underneath. Classic web framework solution: when in doubt, blame the hardware! Meanwhile, the Go developers are in the corner writing code that would run on a calculator.