Geek Jokes

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This is interesting, but the 'alt' text is the most interesting.

"Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at Philosophy."

I've tried it on a few things, it's true! Choose absolutely any article. (Yes. you might find some that don't work)

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garycat said:

the mini mole said:

Keyser McClane said:

This man looks a worrying amount like my programming lecturer from uni...

Isn't it Kernighan, or Ritchie, or Thompson, or one of them lot.

It's Dennis Ritchie I think.

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11 cheers for binary

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JonRB said:

KaraK said:

Sent to me by a fellow PH-er (who is a PHP monkey by trade):

http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british...

That reads like it was written by an American or Canadian. I mean, really, text speak is unheard of on the streets of London? We prefer the word "perchance" to "if"? We abhor abbreviations?

Yeah, right, and we all have bad teeth and drink only tea. Purrrlease.

I know which I'd rather be...

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Marf said:

Can't even see it on my Altair.

lolwut

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cazzer said:

I was Caramon on MUD.
Which everyone shortened to Caz.
Which was always taken when I tried to use it in MMO's so I used Cazzer.

It's stuck for 20 years now.

My nick also comes from the days of MUD. It was made up for me on the spot by my brother when I first connected. Stuck ever since for every game I've ever played. And most email addresses. And website usernames.

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JonRB said:

simonrockman said:

I was actually Thor on MUD.

Thor? You thud have uthed some cream like Thavlon or Thudocream.

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JonRB said:

I may stick this on my wall at work.

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Q. What's yellow and dangerous?
A. *((int*)rand()) = 0xffff00;

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JonRB said:

CommanderJameson said:

It's the One True Brace Style, though!

And it's hideous; K&R should be shot for it

You almost never see that style in commercial C++ or Java these days (thank God!) but for some reason it's quite prevalent in PHP. Never can work that one out.

Why? What? I write all of my commercial c++ in 1TBS, what do you use? (I assume allman?) I think you'll find the google c++ style guide also uses 1TBS.

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JonRB said:

Religious wars have been fought over braces in C++. All I'll say is that I have been programming in C++ commercially for around 20 years, and 14 of them as a freelancer, and I haven't come across a single company that uses One True Brace. The very rare programmer who tries to use it generally gets beaten around the head with Nicolai Josuttis' "The C++ Standard Library" (hardback edition, naturally) until they see the light.

I agree about the war bit, and I can see where the Allman people come from.

But, if your function/if/loop etc is so long that I can't see where the open brace is compared to the close brace, you're doing it wrong.

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JonRB said:

Religious wars have been fought over braces in C++. All I'll say is that I have been programming in C++ commercially for around 20 years, and 14 of them as a freelancer, and I haven't come across a single company that uses One True Brace. The very rare programmer who tries to use it generally gets beaten around the head with Nicolai Josuttis' "The C++ Standard Library" (hardback edition, naturally) until they see the light.

Getting slightly OT now, but how did you become freelance? Is there much need for freelance c++?

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Blimey, that was drastic.

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I'm really hoping BliarOut did this by accident

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JonRB said:

Odd, today's XKCD is this:

Where is yours from?

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JonRB said:

Salgar said:

Where is yours from?

I just found it on google images. I think it must be fan art "in the style of" XKCD.

Just found out it is a snippet from that giant click and drag XKCD 1110: http://xkcd.com/1110/

No idea where it is, but it's there somewhere.

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JonRB said:

Salgar said:

Just found out it is a snippet from that giant click and drag XKCD 1110: http://xkcd.com/1110/

No idea where it is, but it's there somewhere.

Oh I must have missed that one. Thanks!

if you actually want to read it, find one of the super high res pictures where someone has extracted the whole thing. there is so much of it that it's impossible to see it all by clicking and dragging around.