Tag Archives: Humor

Red Meat Friday

Posted on 2019-10-25 by jcs

I’m a little behind today so let’s have another Red Meat Friday. For all you OO lovers and haters out there, Kontra has this offering: Rob Pike (of Unix, UTF-8, Go fame): “object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing” … Continue reading →

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Hacker Laws

Posted on 2019-09-26 by jcs

Here’s a quickie that I stumbled on the other day. Dave Kerr has a nice GitHub repository that’s gathered a collection of “laws” and aphorisms that all Geeks know and love. He calls it hacker-laws. Many of the laws, such … Continue reading →

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That Didn’t Take Long

Posted on 2019-03-02 by jcs

The battle is joined. Guess where emacs.dev takes you.

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Emacs Doctor

Posted on 2018-10-28 by jcs

From fuco1, a little bit of humor to top off your weekend: #emacs Contrary to popular belief M-x doctor isn't so helpful all the timehttps://t.co/NvOeYmo3Ew — Matus Goljer (@Fuco1337) October 28, 2018

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The Decline of Penmanship

Posted on 2018-10-07 by jcs

In response to Friday’s post on going paperless, Smitty notes that one of the consequences is the decline of penmanship. He’s not the first to notice. Here’s what The Oatmeal had to say about it. The Oatmeal is, as always, … Continue reading →

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Things Seen That Can’t Be Unseen

Posted on 2018-01-14 by jcs

Whatever your opinion on the relative merits of the original Star Trek versus Star Trek TNG, there’s no debating that Jean-Luc Picard was one of the franchise’s iconic characters. The following image is therefore deeply disturbing: I knew that they … Continue reading →

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Computer Languages as Weapons

Posted on 2017-11-27 by jcs

For those of you who like such things, here’s a list of popular languages and the weapons they correspond to. My go to languages are Lisp and C so I guess I’m crazy and dangerous but toting an old—if reliable—weapon. … Continue reading →

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A Warning Ignored

Posted on 2017-04-23 by jcs

I tried to warn Grant but he wouldn’t listen1. Now I’m running around with my hair on fire yelling at a cloud. Footnotes: 1 Actually, it’s an old post predating my warning but someone just posted a link to it … Continue reading →

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Summer!

Posted on 2017-04-04 by jcs

As many of you know, the Irreal International Headquarters is in Tampa, Florida. That means that this Kontra tweet resonated: Feeling good about yourself right now? Remember, soon it'll be summer…hot, humid, sticky summer…with mosquitoes. — Kontra (@counternotions) April 2, … Continue reading →

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AI Loosely Defined

Posted on 2017-04-01 by jcs

Since this is April 1st and no post will be taken seriously anyway, I offer this piece of wisdom, which Jean-Philippe Paradis retweeted: by today's definition, y=mx+b is an artificial intelligence bot that can tell you where a line is … Continue reading →

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