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Who is Dr. Hale?
This language, initially developed by Sun Microsystems, is famous for its slogan "Write Once, Run Anywhere"
What is Java?
In February 2022, ChatGPT used cases that were Actually Imaginary when asked by people of this profession to generate their briefs
What are lawyers? (Mata v. Avianca)
Brian Kernighan thinks you should never use your maximum cleverness when writing code because this task is twice as hard
What is debugging?
This type of bug involves accidental writes past the bounds of an array and commonly occurs when inputs are larger than expected
What are buffer overflows?
This Database professor's primary research is in AI/ML and he was given the Outstanding Research Award in 2023 by TU
Who is Dr. Sen?
Oracle has been trying to cash in on their trademark on this language's name, a prototype of which was developed in just ten days to capitalize on the explosion of the Internet
What is JavaScript? (Or JS, or ECMAScript, or ES)
This SaaS company imploded when it was discovered that their flagship Natasha model was Actually Indians
What is Builder.Ai?
Containerization can help create standardized environments so that developers aren't left using this phrase reproducing bug reports
What is "works on my machine"?
Valgrind can help you identify these things, which will slowly eat up resources in long-running processes
What are memory leaks?
This bioinformatics professor and Theoretical Physics PhD also lists Machine Learning, Astrobiology, and Bose-Einstein Condensates among his research interests
Who is Dr. McKinney?
This language has will open your browser to an XKCD comic if you try to "import antigravity"
What is Python?
In a famous X thread, SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin revealed how this platform's model made his production database Actually Irrecoverable during a "code freeze"
What is replit?
It's often said that in software development, this person is simultaneously the killer, the detective, and the victim
Who are You?
This bug might lead a program to end up silently continuing with garbage data that has already been reclaimed by the operating system
What is use-after-free?
This Chemical Engineering PhD was named Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year in 1998
Who is Dr. Shenoi?
This language uses channels as part of its concurrency model and treats unused variables as compiler errors
What is Go? (Or Golang)
This fast food chain's IBM-partnered AI experiment lead to drive-through customers receiving orders that were Actually Indigestible, such as bacon on ice cream
What is McDonalds?
This law claims that adding more developers to a late software project only makes it later
What is Brooks' Law?
The C and C++ specifications technically allow for "nasal demons" if you trigger this thing, but usually you'll just get a segmentation fault
What is undefined behavior? (Or UB)
This bridge Life Master's favorite restaurants are Olive Garden and Charleston's and once claimed that the movies he found funny included The Big Bang Theory and Pink Panther
Who is Dr. Wainwright?
This esolang had no correct programs for the first two years of its existence and uses the "crazy" operation to fill the virtual machine's memory with pseudo-random junk at program start
What is Malbolge?
This chatbot gave NYC entrepreneurs business advice that was Actually Illegal, like taking their employees' tips and serving rat-nibbled food
What is MyCity?
If your code reviewer drops this four-letter acronym followed by a fire emoji, you can be almost certain they didn't read any of your code
What is LGTM? (or Looks Good To Me)
A famous ad for a WrestleMania arcade game features Bret "The Hitman" Hart telling programmers "Come on you guys, there it is right there in front of you the whole time! You're dereferencing" one of these things
What is a null pointer?