There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand hexadecimal, and F the rest.
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand hexadecimal, and F the rest.
Well, to be fair, did I give the impression that it was supposed to make sense? Nevermind. Change my statement to "there are 2 types of people in this world: those that understand Hodor's incredibly insane sense of humour, and those that don't." Rest assured that most people fall into the latter group of people and sometimes, on rare occassions, even Hodor falls into the second group (as paradoxical as that may sound)Originally Posted by Elkvis
O_oas paradoxical as that may sound
I've made jokes founded on such obscure references my subconscious supplied "That was stupid; no one is going to get that; you don't even know where you got that.".
Soma
“Salem Was Wrong!” -- Pedant Necromancer
“Four isn't random!” -- Gibbering Mouther
As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.
-- Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
O_o
Now that is just mean spirited...
yet I still giggled.
Soma
“Salem Was Wrong!” -- Pedant Necromancer
“Four isn't random!” -- Gibbering Mouther
Programmers think xmas and halloween are the same.
After all, dec 25 == oct 31
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
That is...
I dunno. You're not my friend anymore.
Makes sense, you do not want him to access your privates !
"anymore"..suspicious.
Gotta admit that I'm a bit dismayed by the lack of dongle and finger jokes. Not to mention root access.
Sorry, Hodor, but my sun crashed
O_oGotta admit that I'm a bit dismayed by the lack of dongle and finger jokes.
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Soma
“Salem Was Wrong!” -- Pedant Necromancer
“Four isn't random!” -- Gibbering Mouther
Ah, another victim of sexism; the person who got fired. Some feminist gets offended, someone loses a job.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
but there was a small amount of justice served, because the woman who chose to be offended also got fired.
What can this strange device be?
When I touch it, it gives forth a sound
It's got wires that vibrate and give music
What can this thing be that I found?
Our masters are usually the best source of humor. Knuth has two of my all-time favorites:
- The one where he writes something like "Beware of bugs in the code. I just proved it right, I didn't run it"
- The one about miss-attribution, in which he wrote something like "Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer".
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
I admit I didn't read to the end, because I just assumed it was just the same story as so many others before it. Glad to see this wasn't the case. And reading the whole thing to the end was rather uplifting. Not so much for the matter of "justice" (like you, I find it hard to to see justice anywhere in this story), but because it ends up pointing fingers at the real culprit; the internet propensity for emotional escalation.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
