Haacked
2008-09-17 15:35:41
I like this, +1!
Ray Hayes
2008-09-17 15:40:31
this is a sysadmin cartoon :-)
Cristian Ciupitu
2008-09-18 08:37:21
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Literally.
Paul Tomblin
2008-09-19 01:58:10
amen! .
username
2008-09-20 03:51:05
As do I, Paul Tomblin.
TraumaPony
2008-09-20 14:19:59
+10 if I could, but since I can't, +1.
Unkwntech
2008-10-04 05:23:19
Can someone explain this to the non sys admins out here?
Toby Allen
2008-10-19 06:37:15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo
Dour High Arch
2008-10-19 23:54:28
To explain the humor, its easy to forget you do not normally have the privilege to do things like mount a new drive or use a package manager to install new programs. My console sessions always look like "mount somedrive" "[You must be a superuser to do that]" "sudo mount somedrive" "[done]"
Jimmy
2008-11-20 22:32:54
I think this one's my personal favorite.
Christian Nunciato
2009-01-19 23:33:12
I'd try int but I can't remember the password.
unclerojelio
2009-01-22 17:59:43
I didn't understand it, untill I used Ubuntu for two weeks.
Eibx
2009-03-13 15:00:04
I actually wrote a program on Ubuntu called make-me-a-sandwich. If you run it without root access, it will output "What? Make it yourself", but if run with root, "Okay." :p
DeadHead
2009-07-21 05:18:42
Hey, this belongs to serverfault!
Pavel Shved
2009-08-30 18:23:20
@Jimmy You need `sudo !!` :-)
Will Boyce
2009-10-11 20:59:35
+1 - This is the first one that actually made me laugh :)
Pete
2009-11-16 22:10:58
for all those who think you have to retype the entire command: sudo !! will rerun the previous command with sudo prepended.
Cryophallion
2010-01-18 22:51:29
I remember when I read this one and didnt know Linux. Took me a year to understand :P
eMgz
2010-05-16 22:17:51
hahahahahaha !!!
pop850
2010-05-22 20:10:35
heh, its during 'compiling' that I sit on SOF. Sometimes I do a clean build just for a little more time to form an answer
roo
2008-09-17 15:57:54
Can you please add a link to the original site, which includes the title, and Randalls alt-text commentary? See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ for the license.Thanks.
etchasketch
2008-09-17 22:58:36
I second that about Delphi. Sometimes makes me wish I was working in another language....
Graza
2008-09-18 12:20:58
It's interesting how we demand attribution for xkcd, but then blatantly post Dilbert and such.
A. Rex
2008-09-23 01:09:46
It happened to me, while I was working on a laptop on a large .NET project in VS 2003. It took about 25 minutes to compile everything.
Cristian Ciupitu
2008-09-23 13:33:50
I've got a 'shopped version of this stuck near my monitor at work; we use an internally-written CMS that can take up to five minutes to "Publish".(It's great when you're trying to debug something in the template logic; everything needs to be published before being run.)
Rob Howard
2009-04-13 11:11:51
I don't compile - I write Python. Instead, my #1 excuse for legitimately slacking off:"I'm waiting for my query to return." Damn, I waste almost a whole day each week testing SQL queries :(
Greg
2009-08-07 02:10:25
This was over a year of my life at a previous job (I was on the chair). And we aren't programmers. We made a coke can fort, because everything was running fine and we got bored.
mrdenny
2009-08-24 01:24:29
I suppose it's good for productivity, but I feel sad that as time has gone on, compiling slack time has diminished (at least for me) to the point that it's not worth doing anything but twiddling your thumbs. I miss the bad old days of half-hour compiles.
Robert J. Walker
2009-09-25 17:18:35
There should be a follow-up for databasefolk such as myself: "My query's executing"
Gausie
2009-12-07 11:13:13
And people say developers don't need fast computers. :S Anyway, a more modern version would be: "The unit tests are running!"
thSoft
2010-05-23 20:52:45
YES very true! maybe clients/bosses ask u to do something without knowing what the requirements shld be...
iceangel89
2009-06-19 04:06:00
This one, I clipped out of the paper a couple of years (maybe 3) years ago and had it hanging at my cube. Got chuckles and "Oh My God This Is So True" from visiting customers.
Christopher Mahan
2009-09-05 17:31:59
Although, it seems like the solution to this problem is to write a program that prints out a set of requirements describing what the program itself does.
MiffTheFox
2009-11-10 05:16:26
I was once amused by the code that WTFed itself:if( $userId < 1 ) die('WTF!?');
Omeoe
2008-09-27 13:36:17
@Treb, yeah, it's called "My First BillG Review" at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html.
Robert Gamble
2008-11-01 19:53:02
I have actually used WTF/M as a metric when looking over a legacy system designed by a less than talented developer
Neil Aitken
2009-01-13 13:20:48
Have to vote for this one, I use it so often in many of my training sessions! :D
AviD
2008-09-18 21:17:16
so true :) my favorite. we had this in the office too, now I only have one on my "Pictures" folder
Dragan Panjkov
2008-09-20 09:01:26
A company I used to work for paid a branding consultant to rip this off and make it the front page of every single document we ever sent to clients. I'd love to find out where it originally came from.
tjrobinson
2008-10-10 13:28:01
I don't think it has a single author. I have seen a version with only 4 frames in about 1992.
2008-10-24 06:24:14
I actually found this printed on a t-shirt back in the '70s. It was only 4 in the series back then, but I bought the one with the two ropes on either side of the trunk (no cutout). ;-) -R
Huntrods
2008-11-06 00:12:12
I mean xkcd is filled with win and all, but this really is awesome. (then I cried a little inside)
MacX.dmg
2008-11-11 15:04:34
Forever my background at work. Cheers my up when I get ridiculous change requests.
mdm
2009-02-02 21:50:18
Dude! I cannot stop laughing! People in other cubicles are coming to see what's wrong!
Ronnie Overby
2009-03-20 18:54:11
My dad brought a xeroxed copy home from work sometime in the mid 70s. I suspect it wasn't new then.
I. J. Kennedy
2009-07-20 17:29:52
Perhaps it was just all the exercise I had this morning leaving me light headed but that is about the funniest thing Ive read in a very long time. An absolute classic! This is my sense of humor too a tee.
rism
2009-08-28 22:55:07
It's been traced back to 1970 in books - but it was a well known old joke then so might be 50years older. See http://www.businessballs.com/treeswing.htm
Martin Beckett
2009-10-05 20:20:20
Note that while 1.0 wasn't usable, the programmer was actually very close, and 99% of the solution is salvageable, and there's an easy operational work-around, which could be performed on-site by any qualified tech. If they had only allowed the programmer to talk to the customer directly, or better yet make a site visit, the solution would have been perfect. Yes, I am a programmer....
Chris Thornton
2010-03-27 22:02:09
My last name has an apostrophe in it. I feel like lil bobby tables half the time since 50% of what's written out there breaks on apostrophes.
William OConnor - csevb10
2008-09-18 00:19:53
We ran across a Mary Null once that reeked havoc on a legacy system of ours.... Too many LastName != 'Null' conditions...
Bloodhound
2008-09-18 12:26:20
I was thinking to show this one, too... I love it! Funny, with a good lesson...
PhiLho
2008-09-20 18:38:24
William, your comment is particularly ironic given how your name shows up here.
A. Rex
2008-09-23 00:54:25
Also, along the lines of "Mary Null", a university I attended forgot to remove some "Ima Sample"s from their rolls one term.
A. Rex
2008-09-23 00:55:21
[This maybe a little off topic] I once heard in an interview that the 80's pop band 'Erasure' once had all their tapes from a recording session erased by a technician the following day. This was before the band was famous and the technician thought the label was just an instruction.
Jawad
2008-09-24 11:12:57
I was thinking to call my future kid 'Null Pointer Exception'. My girlfriend isn't too hot on the idea though.
christian studer
2009-02-04 09:02:13
This is funny, but I don't like it because it's not technically correct. If the attack was successful (as indicated) then that code would not be showing up in the database field. I guess some of the fields could have been sanitized, but not all.
sjbotha
2009-03-06 21:50:33
@sjbotha: Wouldn't the school have some other record of the kid's name that they could use to figure out the problem even if it totally wiped out the table?
Chris Upchurch
2009-03-17 19:20:39
I couldn't stop laughing... And my colleague (sysadmin / non-developer) doesn't get it :-)
LeonZandman
2009-03-24 14:44:47
Sad that everything seems to be either from Dilbert or the dude from NASA.
adolf garlic
2009-04-16 07:49:53
In Poland we have a nice real life variation of this cartoon: 1. The problem: car radar reads licence plate and display a message "XXXX slow down" - http://pokazywarka.pl/gxce2i/ 2. The problem solution: http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/3536/drsad.jpg
cetnar
2009-10-30 12:43:57
My mate reckoned he read about someone who had a custom license plate that was NULL... and he reckoned he never got any tickets!
alex
2009-11-24 23:28:58
Used this one in several presentations and always a success! XKDC is the best
ChrisR
2010-02-23 12:07:43
I laughed and laughed when I was doing some reading up on SQL injection and ran into this..
filip-fku
2010-05-17 03:58:02
Any task that can be automated in a timely fashion ought to be automated!
Jon Ball
2008-09-18 01:43:27
I once wrote myself out of a job. lolDon't make yourself redundant is my only warning.
_ande_turner_
2008-09-18 15:27:30
@Nick Bolton somehow I'm not suprised. i've worked with a few people who's response to automating a few tasks you do in your job, to be more effiecient and take far less time to accomplish, would be "well what do i need you for anymore?" I'm afraid it might be one of the main reasons for "planned obselencens" crap. i'm a firm believer that you should not make your program fail in a few years just for greed.
Bryan
2009-06-03 13:03:58
Did not you stop and think what that kind of thing does to your KLOC metric????
Jim In Texas
2009-08-07 22:39:55
Same with my boss, he sends me two sql sentences per day for about 2 months to fix what a broken application is doing to the DB, when i asked him: "Why don't we try to fix the app?" He sayd: "You see, you don't want to work, go to your desk and run that sql" !!
Burnsys
2009-10-20 12:57:46
In 1976 I was the most junior programmer on a project (early email system) and so was relegated to testing. The 'testing book' went on for 150 pages (something like that) and, since it was across a network (Tymnet) the only way they knew to do it was to run each test manually and record the results. I had to do the whole book once per week. So I wrote a program that captured my keystrokes and the resultant output, then another that reran the keystrokes and looked for any changes in the output. Instant regression testing that took about 5 minutes to run. And my boss was pissed. Go figure.
Peter Rowell
2009-11-02 16:33:28
Well, in this case he should have spent the 3 hours on SO while pretending to work.
Camilo Martin
2009-12-08 12:51:11
@nbolton I don't quite belive what You wrote, but still upvote Your comment :D
naugtur
2010-04-23 14:39:26
Yesterday my manager actually asked me to automate something. I was surprised and happy.
Dennis
2010-07-14 13:53:26
BTW, I us PHP too! =P and didn't mean this as a putdown in anyway. Just found it amusing as a fanboy style comic. It could apply to any languages in either role.
Quintin Robinson
2008-09-18 16:54:14
Seeing as (afair) Stack Overflow was actually built with .NET, I have decided to retroactively start respecting people who use it
Jens Roland
2009-01-27 07:44:13
I rolled my own DAL and 'architectural solution for repurposing business logic to a desktop environment'. But when I get irritated by the irredemable failure of compile-time type checking (or anything else), jackass PHP fanboys tell me it's because there's something wrong with me, not PHP.
chaos
2009-02-22 11:34:33
not funny, and anyone suggesting running sites on IIS for performance reasons, on servers that have an entire GUI OS installed on them, well, no comment
apphacker
2009-02-22 11:53:27
apphacker: if i dont remember right windows server2008 can be installed in a mode where it only has a console?
Petoj
2009-03-26 19:48:45
@Petoj Windows 2008 does have such an option. Another thing to consider is that stackoverflow.com is running on pure MS technologies, Windows/IIS7/MSSQL/.NET and for the number of requests it receives I would say it performs decent.
Quintin Robinson
2009-03-26 20:08:50
Yeah, this comic is pretty moronic. Take away the specific technology (in this case, .NET) and it's like a third-rate slashdot comment from 1999. "Hur hur our technology is better." But the worst part is the fact that the technological jargon they spout isn't even impressive. Moving code between web apps and desktops? Separating database code and logic (which is what a DAL is)? who cares? And it's not like VB is a paragon of type saftey.
Chad Okere
2009-05-09 09:25:22
1) Doctrine, 2) not sure 3) Dynamic typing, but there is type hinting if you need\want it 4) Server architecture+bytecode caching. Just sayin'
notJim
2009-06-13 21:31:16
"Architectural solution for repurposing your business logic to a desktop environment." Wow. Just wow.
Deniz Dogan
2009-10-29 18:17:55
+1 : This one is laminated and stuck to my monitor, it's the underlying issue with my current place of work.
Pat
2008-09-23 02:23:29
it's the issue in many places, where the unexpected is not accounted for
Alexandre Brisebois
2008-09-28 21:10:59
One Badass Development – Near deadline time everyone winds up going to the one badass of the company for help. In the end, the badass finds that everything that everyone else has done is crap and winds up doing the entire project by himself in a few days without sleep.
Richard J. Terrell
2009-08-22 22:18:57
This must be the 3rd answer in this question that has done that... When will people learn to stop using disposable image hosts?
Lèse majesté
2010-07-28 20:13:19
@Anheledir: you can't parse arbitrary nested parentheses with classic regexps.
J.F. Sebastian
2008-09-17 16:37:45
Particularly when numbers of opening and closing parentheses don't match :-)
alastairs
2008-09-18 08:14:53
If I hadn't done some compiler engineering and also some Scheme as part of my degree I'd never get this... however, I personally think it's obscurity is part of what makes it so funny!
xan
2008-09-19 14:40:46
Well, if you restrict the depth of the expressions to something reasonably large, the automaton can handle it. I remember Martin Kay telling us in one class that he spent half a year of his life on converting CFGs into limited-depth FSAs.
Torsten Marek
2008-09-20 21:32:36
But you can never handle arbitrary expressions of that type with a FSA as you essentially have to construct a different FSA for each and every possible case of the problem.On a seperate note, does anyone know WHERE this comes from? Found on a random-image thread, but I never knoew the source.
xan
2008-09-23 10:38:29
xan: You can always construct a bigger FSA, but the point is whether or not ONE given FSA can handle ALL expressions of this kind, no matter how long.
Adrian Grigore
2009-03-14 08:37:33
Where does this come from? I only find links to blogspam and image hosting sites for it on Google.
Johannes Hoff
2009-11-08 15:52:10
This is the ideal world where devs are looking for bugs. Test should be out there holding the mouse by the tail while dev is in the corner building something with tinker-toys.
Aaron
2008-09-18 16:17:56
@felipec: Largest I've found: http://deceblog.net/uploads/2008/05/developers1.jpg Original: http://www.trackmyspace.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/brave.jpg
voyager
2010-06-21 00:47:48
Equilibrium between a smile and a frown. The complaining has already begun...
Gishu
2008-09-17 19:27:50
Classic. Great parody of Big-A Agile and all the marketed methodologies.
MrBoJangles
2008-09-17 21:40:57
http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=133283I'm <Nelson LaQuet>, BTW.'Nuff said :D
nlaq
2008-09-24 03:34:12
Do you have a higher resolution picture, because this one has an unreadable text?
Cristian Ciupitu
2008-11-07 01:48:33
<Ctrl-+> is your friend. :-) But seriously, even zooming the size up has its limits. The text does get a bit fuzzy at larger zoom levels.
RobH
2009-03-05 02:31:55
I guess that Dilbert lacks one of the main qualities of a good programmer: laziness (see the Camel Book for why).
Cristian Ciupitu
2008-11-07 01:50:23
There's something rather unrealistic about this cartoon, I wonder what it might be.
kronoz
2008-10-04 18:10:49
wow. compromising production applications in the name of humor... .. i like it!
stephenbayer
2008-09-20 15:51:41
It hardly "compromised" the system. It was a Ruby on Rails application so I just created an additional route and an action in frontpage controller. :)
epochwolf
2008-09-23 15:55:02
haha... This is by far the best. If only I had votes left. I just added a route as well. =)
Till
2008-09-27 18:04:44
Rich Seller
2009-07-03 15:30:11
If you ask the GNU C++ for DOS compiler for the process ID, it always returns 42.
Eric J.
2009-08-14 03:00:28
http://xkcd.com/416/"I hear this is an option in the latest Ubuntu release."
Douglas Leeder
2008-09-18 15:40:20
Actually, I think it's just missing the "Zealous Autoconfig" title. The mouseover is there (maybe it was added).
Chris Burgess
2009-01-14 00:51:07
unfortunately the latest (8.10) ubuntu release broke wifi autoconfig
Pete Kirkham
2009-02-03 19:07:51
Worth noting that the spike appears between 1.2 and 1.4, closer to 1.4. Specifically, the spike is at .1337 :D
Asmor
2008-09-19 13:28:35
Randall Munroe, the creator of xkcd, discusses how he actually tested this theory during a talk at Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24 -- start at 8:26 or so. The talk is also exciting because Donald Knuth asks the first question!
A. Rex
2008-09-23 01:07:44
I've found exactly the same effect with playing pool in a pub. Substitute programming skill with pool-shark factor and I've been there :)
Drew Gibson
2008-11-08 18:20:19
Apparently this carton formed the the complete basis for the plot of the movie Swordfish.
RBarryYoung
2009-09-24 06:04:55
I wanted to upvote Asmor, but right now it's 133.. I am hesitating, keep it or let's all upvote to 1337?
BalusC
2009-12-02 21:46:33
I wish the corresponding tee http://imgs.xkcd.com/store/imgs/regex_square_0.png had a "real" regular expression on it. It seems like a perfect opportunity to play off the "regular expressions look like cursing" thing.
A. Rex
2008-09-23 00:59:07
I wore this shirt to work one day, and someone asks me, staring at their screen and apparently not having noticed my wardrobe, "DOES ANYBODY KNOW REGULAR EXPRESSIONS!?" It was a heroic moment.
Robert Elwell
2008-10-08 15:11:09
After reading this I actually learnt regular expressions, just so I could use that line.
Neil Aitken
2009-01-13 13:26:20
An Algorithms and Data Structures teacher once rephrased this as the "fun roommate" problem: what do you do the night your roommate removes all the punctuation and spaces from your senior thesis to be "funny"?
Peter Nore
2009-03-30 04:09:10
It always bugged me that he's using Perl to save the day. Perl may have saved the day, but it will ruin many weeks in the future.
Deniz Dogan
2009-10-29 17:59:16
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Meinersbur
2009-12-14 19:34:27
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems." --jwz
old Ixfoxleigh
2010-09-17 21:01:49
You might want to upload the picture and link to that.. we can't see your c:\ :P
Blorgbeard
2009-02-04 20:38:54
See how the cable looks chewed through? Looks like the wireshark struck again.
Matt H.
2010-10-22 20:29:00
"We lost the documentation on quantum mechanics. You'll have to decode the regexes yourself."
JK
2008-09-17 16:56:27
@alex, no they simply publish a 1151real.jpg without all the bottom; your way is good too though. http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/1151real.jpg
configurator
2009-06-11 02:22:36
It took me a while (and had to read the edits) to wonder what I was talking about above!
alex
2009-12-23 04:06:25
A:
Laserallan
2008-09-17 16:57:07
There should be a badge for having posted something as unpopular as this :)
Laserallan
2009-01-12 13:24:23
"You just won the "unpopular" badge. see your _profile_ for details."
Camilo Martin
2009-12-08 13:04:19
well, its funny in the "wtf" sense -- and what's even funnier that its got 22 downvotes. that's just
bobobobo
2010-02-26 04:55:10
One of my favourite dilbert frames - the last one: "You could have warned me" - "that's not how experience works".
Javaman59
2009-10-29 06:56:34
FYI - this is from the book "Dont make me think" http://www.amazon.com/Common-Approach-Usability-Circle-Com-Library/dp/0789723107
Sameer Alibhai
2008-09-23 14:37:18
I worked at a startup that wanted to do this. They went under.
Abtin Forouzandeh
2009-02-04 06:59:20
I sleep all the day and work at night. Yeah, sometimes I want to pretend I died
valya
2009-12-18 19:32:23
This was exactly what was happening in this place I worked. Every morning it was fun(ny) talking to the guys overseas about what they exactly didn't do.
PPTim
2010-03-05 18:33:07
i have a t-shirt with this strip on. my colleagues and geek entourage simply adore it.
Berk D. Demir
2009-01-01 01:03:44
laugh not laff(comments need to be at least 15 characters long so I'm typing this in parenthesis to meet this strange requirement)
2009-05-05 09:18:29
pointed haired boss looks and acts just like the dean of engineering at my college. God we hated that guy.
DJTripleThreat
2009-12-14 20:49:04
lol makes me laugh....delete from all_idiot_leaders_who_think_like_that
crosenblum
2010-08-10 20:42:40
The original XKCD alt text for this comic is: "Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain a disk with the data they want."
Pat Notz
2008-09-20 10:28:32
Vi vs. emacs... here's an entire video game I wrote that is nothing but a big joke about the (switch to somber jedi voice) emacs vi flamewars. http://wordwarvi.sourceforge.net
smcameron
2009-06-19 04:18:12
I must say.. vi is far away the best editor I've ever use (I have never used emacs)
unkiwii
2009-09-03 04:24:15
I once spent a whole afternoon trying to kill my former boss' emacs session on our integration server (the integration server was a Ti Book that had literally been run-over and the screen no longer worked and was sitting on his desk), so that when he opened a new emacs session a script would run the 'say' command in OSX and sing him a chorus of 'Vee eye is the only editor for me!'.
lewisblackfan
2009-11-19 02:53:21
Just realized (months after the fact) that the last panel is a pun on "M. Butterfly"
egrunin
2010-04-13 14:38:28
The whole point of vim is the powerful commands do many things in few keystrokes. Even if it was possible to program with butterfly, it would be the worst way because you have no control and no power.
hasen j
2010-09-29 02:42:27
@hasen j, the whole point of the joke is these hypothetical "real programmers" have so much control and power that they can let a butterfly flap its wings only once and flip a single bit. "Real programmers" don't make mistakes, so they use the most convoluted tool. Of course, this is a fallacy. Actual "real programmers" make mistakes and take advantage of tools to minimize the impact of their mistakes.
Scottie T
2010-10-07 15:52:32
rossp
2008-11-11 06:00:20
I've seen this one several places. It must be the official Python cartoon by now.
unclerojelio
2009-01-22 18:04:44
I first discovered xkcd when finding the link to this comic in the python repositories.
MitMaro
2009-07-04 04:35:56
The weird thing is that every actual Python feature mentioned in this carton actually also worked in BASIC 30 years ago.
RBarryYoung
2009-09-24 06:30:40
+7
A:
I don't know about my favourite (xkcd and Dilbert are the obvious candidates, or course) but I found Mandatory Fun quite disappointing (sorry Alex, I really do believe that The Daily WTF is one of the best sites for developers out there in the 'net, and I hope the comic will stand up to expectations sooner or later).
Manrico Corazzi
2008-09-17 22:05:03
The comic was awful, but the user-submitted versions were often brilliant.
Valerion
2008-11-19 11:08:33
I'd say my life. That way he won't get any of my money; even if he kills me. He's contractually bound not to. That way, killing me has no use; so he may as well just sod off.
TraumaPony
2008-09-20 14:34:59
@TraumaPony: he'd probably kill you anyway for making him look dumb.
Joeri Sebrechts
2008-09-27 11:52:37
Robbers initially took note of this and started saying "Give me your money or both your money and you life", but they soon shortened it to simply "GIVE ME YOUR F****** MONEY!!"
Ali
2008-10-06 14:33:01
I love that the robber mouse starts crying in the last frame for no apparent reason.
Deniz Dogan
2009-07-04 12:10:29
skurpur, the idea is that it's so sad that the robber mouse is crying.
Coding With Style
2009-07-05 06:06:12
@TraumaPony: he said "your money OR your life", not "your money XOR your life".
Evgeny
2009-07-16 05:48:22
Was happy to see this one on the cover of Stevens' Unix Network Programming book.
jkf
2009-06-19 04:24:57
"post" even. (and it wants 15 chars for no good reason, wrecking my joke. Thanks.)
smcameron
2009-06-19 04:50:42
You can just hold down space bar until its 15, post, and it strips off the spaces.
Mk12
2009-08-13 18:20:32
I used to work with a dba who looked like that guy - suspenders and everything. He would come into work on a harley and sit FAR away from everyone. Very anti-social.
DJTripleThreat
2009-12-14 21:06:50
A physic teacher usually used it when I was in university... I tried in my exam and it worked :)
Vinze
2008-11-17 14:03:59
You have to do it in undergrad classes. You cant expect them to be able to explain the actual process.
Karl
2009-02-16 14:49:29
I got 7 / 10 on a proof in undergrad discrete mathematics using this technique...
Ian McLaird
2009-02-16 15:18:04
The image seems to be no longer hosted at that site. Can you link to the original so the original author gets attribution, please? (Not that we don't all know who writes Dilbert, but still...)
Bill the Lizard
2009-06-06 13:57:53
Not like I want to know, but why is the manager only wearing a speedo?
Ellery Newcomer
2009-03-07 04:47:17
1) He's also wearing a pendant and glasses. 2) He's the pal, once he becomes the "manager", he puts on a shirt and tie. 3) It's Ray. That's just the way he rolls.
Plutor
2010-01-07 18:55:39
Translate to what? He's already talking binary, what more could you want? ;)
sundar
2008-10-15 07:05:24
I tried translating it, but a byte is 8 bits long. He's talking with 5 bit characters. What strange form of binary is this?
asperous.us
2009-07-19 20:29:20
I printed this off at my last job, and kept it by my desk, and when ever my boss asked for a change like that i use to refer to that cartoon to the other employees. (yes i use to work in a real life dilbert office)
Audioillity
2009-06-12 10:47:58
Date sback to the Cavendish lab in the 1920s - they added a multiturn vernier potentiometer to all experiments to give Rutherford (a notorius destroyer of experiments) something to fiddle with. The point being it wasn't ever connected to anything.
Martin Beckett
2009-10-05 20:24:17
A:
David Plumpton
2008-09-18 10:09:54
+136
A:
Dilbert is the top favorite, but I've also really enjoyed the xkcd comics the last couple years. I've got a couple of those posted up in my cube... I try really hard to live by this one.
CobolGuy
2008-09-18 12:17:41
This the best xkcd strip ever.@thenduks: I've managed to cause a segfualt in ruby :)
the_drow
2009-08-14 05:27:57
I'm saving this one to show my customers, next time they show me something they think they want and really, really don't.
Kevin Conner
2008-09-20 04:53:55
One of our guys put this one on our project manager's desk a while back. He liked it so much that it sat there for all to see for several months. (@sdfx: Some people lump arachnids and insects into the same group and call them all bugs.)
RobH
2009-03-05 03:30:57
In early versions of Minesweeper, you could pause the game by hitting Esc - the window would minimize and the clock pause. In Windows 2000 the clock would stop but the window would remain, so you could play out the game and your time would be whatever the clock said right now. It was obviously a bug but Microsoft documented it as if it was a feature.
Hugh Allen
2009-05-15 02:26:49
@hugh: unfortunately, this feature has been removed in Windows 7. Should I open a bug report?
configurator
2009-06-11 01:31:42
@sdfx: _technically_, insects have 6 legs; "bug" is informally used to refer to any arthropod, including non-insects like spiders and scorpions.
Lèse majesté
2010-07-28 20:00:12
Computer users should never be allowed near Word until they have spent two years using a plain ol' text editor.
Jared Updike
2008-09-19 18:32:45
That brings back memories. One of my first jobs involved using Word for DOS as a text editor. Every once in a while my code wouldn't assemble because I forgot to save as text. I finally fond and downloaded a free text editor from a BBS system.
Ferruccio
2008-09-27 12:04:38
One of the new developers on the team was using Word to edit his java files. He couldn't figure out why they wouldn't compile.
Sixty4Bit
2008-09-27 19:44:07
@Sixty4Bit I wonder if that person had actually done any programming before then..
Nitrodist
2010-05-23 23:46:40
I was waiting for someone to post Geek Hero! Great series, while it lasted and before its visual improvements.
Dennis
2010-07-14 18:16:12
I've used Wordstar for DOS as a text editor before. It had a useful column-editing mode that was quite rare, at the time.
Mark Bannister
2010-09-09 16:51:13
In high school i had a "science for the engineer" class and one of the teacher told us that code could be written in any text editor and then gave us a list of examples: "notepad, word...". Then I stand up and left the room.
p4bl0
2009-09-05 17:08:31
"Welcome to LCARS menu system"Um, except LCARS actually came out OK on Nokia's internet tablets
Ivan Vučica
2009-03-15 21:16:17
Finally someone found this out, too! Touchscreens will never be useful exactly because of this reason.
Daniel
2010-05-05 17:10:28
Touchscreens are perfectly useful. The millions of them in use in portable gaming consoles, phones, tablet PCs, digitizing tablets, and hundreds of other applications attest to this. This comic only illustrates why touchscreens are impractical as an input device for desktop systems.
Lèse majesté
2010-08-24 15:15:32
This cartoon is not about touchescreens. It's about touche_less_screens. Check out TED talk - http://www.ted.com/talks/john_underkoffler_drive_3d_data_with_a_gesture.html
Tamer Salama
2010-08-24 23:19:53
Because random raptor attacks are something everyone should worry about.
Keithius
2008-10-01 21:03:23
+1. I found a GOTO in some C# code just last week! Where do we find these contractors???
rally25rs
2009-01-12 23:30:06
LOL. Was horrified ~10 years ago when the linux kernel hackers added gotos into "my" (ok, the huge company I work for's) driver. Got used to it though. Don't hate gotos instinctively anymore. Even use them sometimes. Good enough for Linus, good enough for me.
smcameron
2009-06-19 04:09:36
@Jahanzeb Farooq -- Reference to Jurassic Park and chaotic systems -- read the book or see the movie.
Hogan
2010-01-24 18:10:41
I'll have to whip out a copy of this next time instead of retelling my stories about having to program with punch cards.
unclerojelio
2009-01-22 18:11:19
Kinda reminiscent of this Monty Python piece: http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm
Jonik
2009-03-07 10:09:44
I always heard this joke as "You had ones? All we had were lowercase L's". (Old typewriters sometimes omitted the "1", and you were supposed to type L)
David Chappelle
2009-04-02 19:31:00
@David Chappelle: In that case, perhaps LOLcode is the oldest programming language.
amphetamachine
2010-08-28 04:30:46
let me add that the title of this picture is "FRUSTRATION" which makes it even funnier! ;)
steffenj
2008-09-25 22:25:01
with the Fridrich method - 27 seconds - http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/Richard/times.html
pageman
2009-07-29 18:29:26
@pageman but can you do it without looking at the cube? It *is* on the other side of the woman.
Nitrodist
2010-05-23 20:31:12
I'm really glad I learnt to pull Rubik's cubes to pieces. The 80s... gotta love 'em...
Mark Bannister
2010-09-09 16:23:03
This is so true. I was fortunate enough to narrowly escape my own numbing.
thenduks
2009-02-20 18:15:34
I like the for loop: for (int i=1;i<=numBrainCells;i++) { turnOn(brain[i]) system.out.println("Yawn"); }
splattne
2009-08-11 15:11:46
What is it with Foxtrot and starting iteration at 1 instead of 0?
Michael Dickens
2009-11-11 04:08:13
I'd like to know why the functions getCurrTime and isitaWorkday both either return void or their return value is never used....
mezoid
2009-12-06 22:01:30
personally, I'd use `brain[i].enable();` or `brain[i].activate();` over `turnOn(brain[i]);`
Wallacoloo
2010-02-19 01:31:42
@Sorin Comanescu actually brain has to have been initialized and is pointing to null. First brain must be initialized. Also, numBrainCells has to be *declared*!
Nitrodist
2010-05-23 23:34:18
Another one I've seen and felt in so many different companies. Bad managers suck so hard. And yet this strip is so funny.
Jens Roland
2009-01-27 08:20:03
You should split these into separate posts so they can be voted separately.
Frank Szczerba
2008-09-27 17:24:29
I love this one. Put it as a background for my work computer at my last job!
torial
2009-01-24 04:42:40
Damn, I can't stop thinking about the solution to this one. Someone's to help me, please?
MartinStettner
2009-04-07 08:15:46
try: http://squirreling.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/nerd-sniping-infinite-grid-of-resistors/
torial
2009-04-07 15:08:51
Here's a good explanation of how to do this sort of problem: http://sites.google.com/site/resistorgrid/grid
Tim Goodman
2010-03-29 02:32:15
@zibri: Thanks for introducing hackles. It is really great cartoon. Not sure why they stopped doing it. I am going through the archive.
ragu.pattabi
2008-10-08 19:15:11
It's funny because it's true. So, very, true. "Why can't we hide this field by default?" > "Because it's mandatory." > "Why is it mandatory?" > "Because the customer might need it later if they buy this other module we have." > *eye-stab*
Joeri Sebrechts
2008-09-27 11:43:56
I'm building an app like this right now... I would be worried but really, those fields are needed. This aint no fancy apple ipod or google searcher, it's a domain specific UI.
Karl
2009-02-16 14:44:11
This reminds me "Why software sucks" by David Platt http://www.whysoftwaresucks.com/
Arnis L.
2009-05-13 14:03:39
wow, that book's website sucks --^ Seriously, frames which grab pages from unrelated domains?
thomasrutter
2009-06-03 03:58:58
So ... Apple and Google products are simpler because they don't deal with personal information?
Alec
2009-09-05 17:43:10
Apple and Google products are simpler because they don't have to deal with a business process.
Robert Harvey
2009-10-18 20:30:01
Heh, I actually do this. Probably after hearing too many horrorstories from people who've worked for hours without saving, and then have their computer crashing on them.
Jonta
2008-11-24 21:00:33
Ctrl-S is hardwired into my left hand, I don't even notice I'm doing it...
Benjol
2010-02-05 14:24:46
I learned to do this when my computer's power supply began failing. It crashed on average 2 times every 3 hours for a week straight. I'm glad I got in the habit of saving so early on in my career. Everytime I tab out of a program, I press Ctrl-S as well. It leads to some funny side effects when I'm tabbing between FireFox and Python. But I've never overwritten my Python scripts with Web Pages :D
Wallacoloo
2010-02-19 01:59:02
Theres also the flip side of deleting too many lines and accidentally saving it away, breaking your code. Save-as is just as important!Also, everytime I see the brunette I think he's a guy.. until later in the same comic.
PPTim
2010-03-05 19:20:33
+11
A:
When NOT to put a book's author on the cover
Not a comic, but it should be!
Jason Baker
2008-09-21 18:21:46
DOK
2008-10-22 22:01:59
BTW, if you want scary book covers: http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2009/03/10/improvements-to-barry-s-book-cover
Colin Mackay
2009-07-20 18:29:25
This is indeed a real classic. We used to have it hanging on the wall of our office with the face of a colleague photoshopped over Bob's head :-)
LeonZandman
2009-03-13 22:05:10
No, 0000 would be where they stand _before_ jumping to 0001. If I remember my hopscotch correctly.
Adriano Varoli Piazza
2008-11-18 16:00:34
That's interesting, I've always written binary to read left to right not right to left..
Ben Daniel
2009-02-05 21:54:51
@Ben, so you haven't actually been writing binary at all then have you :P
thenduks
2009-02-20 18:34:48
When a girl did the same thing as a guy, the critic generalized from "one" girl being bad at math to "all" girls being bad at math. He didn't make that same generalization when he was talking to the guy.
DOK
2008-10-22 21:42:40
I shared this one with the guys at my old job, explaining that this is how it feels sometimes. I got some blank looks, and one confused "So all girls are awesome at programming?"
Donnelle
2008-12-05 12:10:33
+475
A:
Oh! There can be only one:
It's sooo funny, because it's true :)
Seb Nilsson
2008-09-23 12:20:25
"What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!" I have this on my office wall.
Phoenix
2008-10-10 07:25:48
It won't let me upvote this more than once!!!! Hahahahaha - I just had that conversation like 5 minutes ago!
BenAlabaster
2008-12-13 06:14:25
This was put up the day of the Youtube outage.. (Where PCCW readvertised prefixes that were being advertised by Pakistani Telecom)
Sargun Dhillon
2009-01-18 09:06:04
As I tell my kids daily, "If it's on the internet it must be true!"
unclerojelio
2009-01-22 18:02:58
I sent this one to a couple of friends to ... uhm... hilight their compulsive correcting tendencies. Guess what? Didn't work. haha.
slothbear
2009-02-08 02:21:54
I just sent this to my girlfriend. Two seconds later I asked myself: why?
drvdijk
2009-07-01 17:26:44
It's not a programming cartoon really, just a nerd cartoon.Randal forgot the long hair, but I assure you, he made this one about me.
mcv
2010-03-04 15:42:43
I think this will convince my wife why I'm so much on SO till late.
this. __curious_geek
2010-08-06 06:37:19
this is a meta cartoon that describes most of the people that frequent SO
Anonymous Type
2010-08-25 01:42:02
Earlier versions of Windows NT required you to scroll through the text before the agree button would enable. 20 servers and you had to scroll through the license on every one of them GRRRRRRR
Brad Bruce
2008-09-28 22:23:14
There's a few apps around that make you scroll to the bottom before accepting.
Aupajo
2008-10-09 00:45:25
Either TheDailyWTF or the Interface Hall of Shame has at least one screenshot where actually such a message was displayed ("wow, you are a fast reader") including the measured time.
OregonGhost
2008-10-21 15:00:07
I first encoutnered the scroll to the bottom thing on Napster - I quite like the time thing actually :D
Ross
2008-11-08 19:27:07
I remember a piece of software (but sadly not the name of it) that I used once that popped up a "Are you sure you read all that? It only took you 1.002 seconds." or something like that.
Valerion
2008-11-19 10:44:35
World Of Warcraft will not let you 'Agree' the TOS unless it's scrolled all the way down.
LiraNuna
2009-02-22 12:02:01
Some apps require a time down and scrolling to the bottom. Can't think of any right now
jim
2009-05-19 21:25:08
I took an online driver's safety course (to get out of a ticket) in California that was like this. I heard this was because you are required to spend 8 hours on it, just like as if you went to the class in person.
Dolphin
2009-06-06 03:58:14
I actually habitually scroll down through TOS just to make sure this doesn't happen! hahaha
pageman
2009-07-29 18:24:05
hmmm so all you people actually *don't* read when you scroll down??I guess in my next release I will have to make you pass thru a multiple choice test (with negative marking) about the TOS after you have scrolled down before showing you the "I accept" button.
Jus12
2010-03-04 09:45:57
nice hahaha =D really really nice. "i feel like i should send microsoft some of this"
thephpdeveloper
2009-09-06 12:23:37
Apparently, you haven't visited Youtube recently:http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/10/08/youtube-audio-preview/
Randy
2008-10-24 07:21:24
This is soooo much funnier because YouTube placed a "read aloud" button right where the "post comment" button used to be. And you weren't allowed to post the comment until it finished reading. Fortunately, they removed it after about a month.
Michael Dickens
2009-11-11 03:48:27
A:
TToni
2008-09-28 15:41:19
i have seen exact same idea is in another comic listed here. Not sure which is original.
ragu.pattabi
2008-10-08 16:39:46
http://miscellanea.wellingtongrey.net/comics/2007-09-03--the-software-development-flowchart.png
Tom
2008-11-07 12:05:42
XML probably would have tags with lowercase. And yes, MathML basically looks like that.
Jared Updike
2009-03-01 17:32:45
Actually, they're a mysterious mixture of parentheses (`()`) and angle brackets/chevrons (`⟨⟩`).
Jon Purdy
2010-08-24 16:01:16
Neither is Doonesbury. Actually this is funnier than Doonesbury. Actually sticking a freshly sharpened pencil under your eyelid and blinking fiercely is better than Doonesbury.
adolf garlic
2009-04-20 07:02:11
In my environment, I still need to support Internet Explorer 6. I think the "Swearing" part needs to be extended. By about 800%.
Michael Stum
2008-11-25 21:37:39
This one maked me lol alot, before i realised that I indeed have spend the last 2 days trying to get a site working in IE6.
Pim Jager
2008-12-16 22:47:32
The yellow part is sooo true. I would have broken it down to 95% IE6 and 5% IE7.
Mehrdad Afshari
2009-01-16 00:08:05
oh my god, i hadn't laughed that hard in probably a year. Perfect after a day of css/design hax0ring. Hopefully jQuery's position() method will save the day.
TJB
2009-02-04 06:41:44
I saw this what seems like ages ago. I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry when I realized it's still true today, Here's hoping IE8 is better.
danswain
2009-02-04 23:34:45
no, this really is still so true! haha IE8 is far superior to IE6 and better than IE7, but still far too many people using IE6! :(
danrichardson
2009-06-16 11:08:13
just found out key customer has _IE5_ in use in some segments of the company... time to investigate alternate career paths
larson4
2009-06-19 14:04:32
No regrets here about developing for thick clients during that era, then jumping on the ria train ;)
James Cadd
2009-07-15 20:52:40
Well the tables part could be true... I mean, if a layout takes 1/4 of your dev time and it doesn't work, I'd use tables. However there are some nice frameworks to deal with that now.
Camilo Martin
2009-12-08 14:01:31
We Programmers need a Nelson Mandela to give us a IE Free World. for me and for you and for the Entire Human Race.
2010-07-04 08:08:03
@Pim Jager Awww, a lol alot! Can it make me laugh? http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
cofiem
2010-07-31 05:58:56
+15
A:
Offtopic, but necessary:
I can't help but notice a large amount of hotlinking of these images.
Golden Rule, people :(
pookleblinky
2008-10-04 23:09:03
Awesome, I haven't heard the term "hot linking" since the Clinton administration.
I. J. Kennedy
2009-07-20 17:53:43
`π` is an `irrational` number, which means that its value cannot be expressed exactly as a fraction `m/n` so - be rational -> get `π`
Tumbleweed
2010-10-28 10:01:38
+8
A:
+6
A:
Tragically, my favorite cartoon is too old to be on the interwebs.
It's from Datamation. (Remember Datamation?) A man is sitting at a desk. There are bits of electronics everywhere. Rubble is strewn into every corner of the room. His face and hair are singed.
He is thinking "It's never done that before."
Robert Rossney
2008-10-16 00:13:08
According to google (Pi) - (9^2 + (19^2)/22)^(1/4) = 1.00714725 × 10^(-9 )
Varun
2010-06-27 10:12:27
+1
A:
This is my favorite IT Crowd moment: You Tube Link. Oh, and the smoking room storyline in series two.
Skizz
Skizz
2008-10-24 14:34:00
A:
BobC
2008-11-10 14:39:30
I did this once out of spite at my old place of work. I don't even drink coffee. No one falling asleep, but lots of complaints of headaches.
Darthg8r
2009-08-22 21:37:13
Darthg8r: you'd need to have a serious caffeine dependence to get headaches from drinking decaf.
Lèse majesté
2010-07-29 00:55:29
Looks like that keyboard has one key too many. (Comment from http://www.goldb.org/goldblog/2008/02/15/RealProgrammersCodeInBinary.aspx)
Željko Filipin
2008-11-19 09:31:51
the 1 and 0 on the keyboard should be swapped (Just preference, but on all the keyboards I've used, it's been 0,1,2,3,...)
Wallacoloo
2010-02-19 01:52:29
This is nothing to make jokes about. This is actually how I wrote AlgoSim: www.algosim.se
Andreas Rejbrand
2010-07-08 20:55:56
+95
A:
("40% of OpenBSD installs lead to shark attacks. It's their only standing security issue.")
Darren
2008-11-20 22:25:49
This is what Jeff's "new server" saga on the podcast has reminded me of.
Chris Hanson
2009-02-10 06:15:52
Really feels like this some times, though not so often when computers are involved :)
Torandi
2009-07-31 21:00:16
@ricebowl, thanks. I must have left that comment when I was at work and I forgot about it until now.
Michael Myers
2010-02-28 02:36:35
A:
skiphoppy
2008-11-25 17:12:00
Is that a humoctopus in the last panel? :-) (Check http://www.everettcc.edu/news/2009/index.cfm?id=9242, or Google it if you've never heard of a humoctopus before.)
RobH
2009-03-06 03:55:08
I guess folks could see how this is programming related if their management was as inconsistent about what they want them doing as mine is.You mean nobody else has this problem?
skiphoppy
2010-07-27 15:10:17
A:
For those who have worked at Accenture www.bigtimeconsulting.com has some awesome ones...
Here are just a few:
mezoid
2008-12-09 12:20:00
+58
A:
While not specifically about programming per se....wanting to program games is what got me interested in IT in the first place....
anyway this one made me laugh so hard when I saw it!
mezoid
2008-12-12 12:55:30
i'd have better luck at this version. i recently tried http://www.quakelive.com/
bobobobo
2009-07-12 22:29:23
Alt text: I'm sure a discussion of the reason for the disappearance of adventure games in favor of RPGs would be fascinating
Doppelganger
2010-02-13 18:45:49
@voyager: comments have to be atleast 15 characters, before you could just add spaces but not any more so I just said that instead of saying hahahahahahahaha.
Mk12
2010-06-24 02:33:55
Made me think for a moment -- but yeah, every base is indeed base 10!
Jon Schneider
2008-12-30 17:46:59
Ya definitely a bit of brain teaser at first but kind of a neat idea.
Andrew G. Johnson
2008-12-30 19:12:07
Don't want to be a pedant, but if the alien was using Base Binary, then there would be 100 rocks
johnc
2009-01-08 05:07:30
@Iagerdalek, it isn't that there will always be 10 rocks, its that describing any base would be base 10
Andrew G. Johnson
2009-01-08 08:50:17
@José, when expressed in base X notation, X is always 10, regardless of the value of X. 2 in base 2 is 10, 8 in base 8 is 10, 16 in hex is 10, everything is base 10 from the inside, by definition.
Wedge
2009-02-11 02:08:04
soooooo true. So if we had more than 10 digits, what would be the one after 9? THAT is what we should call what we're calling 'base 10' now. Maybe 'base A'.
thomasrutter
2009-03-07 16:56:29
Seek out the 12 Multiplication Rock. The Alien has 12 fingers and twelve toes. You know, when I was 7 in 1975 I didn't quite get it. Make perfect sense now :)
David Chappelle
2009-04-02 19:42:00
@tuinstoel no it does not. For those that don't get it yet that's just sad; call yourself programmers. The aliens have four fingers and therefore they count by saying 1 2 3 10 we count by saying 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 so for both of us we percieve that we both use base '10' but 10(alien) != 10(human) --> 10(alien) == 4(human). I hope that makes more sense to everyone. Sorry for those who got it but i felt the desperate need to explain the wrong logic some people seem to have.
Robert Massaioli
2009-04-30 13:38:29
@Shhnap, If you ask an alien how many fingers he/she/xyz/it has he/she/xyz/it will say 10.
tuinstoel
2009-05-06 09:03:34
Oh? What about base zero? Most useful number system ever devised.
Coding With Style
2009-07-03 22:55:07
@Shhnap, no matter the dispute about everyone simply using "their" 10, you have the implication the wrong way around...
dionadar
2009-08-27 21:53:08
@tuinstoel, you are making an incorrect assumption, if the aliens use base 4 and the aliens have 2 fingers on their hands, they will respond "We have 2 fingers", if they have 4 fingers on their hands they will respond "We have 10 fingers".
Nathan Koop
2009-11-05 19:51:20
@NathanKoop - why do you think we use base 10? Anything to do with the fact that we have 10 fingers, perhaps?
Kirk Broadhurst
2009-11-11 09:52:10
That triangle thing in the lower right corner actually looks like Purple Tentacle on his quest of taking over the world (Day of the Tentacle, anyone?) :-)
LeonZandman
2009-03-13 22:13:00
+24
A:
I can't believe 6 pages of answers and no one mentions the banana jr 6000. How quickly we forget.
The other one I love and couldn't find the image for has the punchline "Failure Mr. Jones, is hardly original. Now sit down."
Also from the Bloom County strip.
John Clark
2009-01-08 03:39:33
There shouldn't be a "YES" leading from "GOOD" to "LET'S GO DRINK"; it should just be an unlabeled arrow. Or, even better, the "GOOD" box shouldn't exist, and the arrows leading to it should instead lead directly to the box after "GOOD".
Matt Huggins
2010-08-26 17:49:16
+13
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I think the IT consultant's image is the best:
Reasons why people who work with computers have a lot of spare time
(linking because the picture's pretty big)
Jason Baker
2009-02-24 14:14:22
It's pretty similar to this one http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon/84624#84624 I'm not sure which one came first
Doppelganger
2010-02-13 19:00:26
@Doppelganger: This one: Mar 4 '09 at 22:40; the other one: Sep 17 '08 at 15:39. You do the math.
Andreas Rejbrand
2010-07-08 20:49:28
@Andreas, these pictures are decades old. http://www.businessballs.com/treeswing.htm
sjbotha
2010-08-17 18:33:49
This is good too: http://www.businessballs.com/businessballs_treeswing_pictures.htm
sjbotha
2010-08-17 18:37:35
Alt Text: "It's even harder if you're an asshole who pronounces <> brackets."
Coding With Style
2009-07-05 06:07:10
+65
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http://lbrandy.com/blog/2008/10/my-first-and-last-webcomic/
It's not really a programmer cartoon, but as a programmer I regularly have to deal with people who think JPEG is suited for everything. If you don't know what I'm talking about, read this.
compie
2009-03-20 18:17:15
It's not a fake XKCD cartoon... stick figures existed before XKCD you know.
davr
2009-12-02 21:53:02
I've sadly seen these people. And then they wonder how I can make such good looking screen shots and mockups
Earlz
2010-05-23 03:50:09
Ughh... I've had my run-ins with these types too. Usually the response I get is "LOL! It's just for the internet; it doesn't need to be super high-quality!" And then they proceed to tell me that _Portable Network Graphics_ are only used by professional graphic designers for backing up their hi-res print files.
Lèse majesté
2010-08-24 15:00:30
The source could be http://blogs.msdn.com/steverowe/archive/2004/11/17/code-editor-learning-curves.aspx The date of the blog post matches the date in the ilustration and Steve Rowe writes in his post "A friend of mine put this together"
f3lix
2009-04-13 11:37:24
Oh, the days it took me to figure out to use C-x C-c instead of C-z.
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
2010-09-25 18:27:31
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This one hasn't been here yet. I would post it, but it's a little too big a picture.
ldigas
2009-03-29 18:37:45
Unfortunate that, from personal experience, you can add management to the first as well ...
James Skemp
2009-06-13 16:13:34
@Bears - Oh, well. Nothing lasts forever, I guess. On the other side, somebody did post the exact same comic in the answers below, if I remmember correctly.
ldigas
2010-07-03 01:54:36
+12
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Ten reasons you know you're living in 2009
- You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
- You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
- You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
- You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
- Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
- You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
- Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
- Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
- You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
- You're reading this and nodding and laughing. :)
Charles Faiga
2009-04-29 20:24:05
Wrong thread; try the programmer jokes one. (And none of these are programming-related anyway.)
Michael Myers
2009-04-29 21:37:12
-1. First, not a cartoon. Second, it's not about programming. Third, it's been swirling around the interwebs since before 2004.
Christian Mann
2010-10-16 22:53:03
@Ryan: Read the Human Interface Guidelines. Do not make your application set the volume :]
Time Machine
2010-03-22 16:21:15
hm... there is an old chinese proverb: go to the extreme, and it will be the exact opposite.
動靜能量
2009-05-19 01:06:28
A:
a paid nerd
2009-05-09 08:26:40
I'm afraid that over time, the entire xkcd corpus will appear in this thread.
guns
2009-05-13 19:35:46
There is nothing to be afraid about xkcd. The more places it is, the more people will read it and discover its greatness.
David Basarab
2009-05-19 15:36:02
In response to that last sentence in parenthesis, probably EA games http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
alex
2009-12-23 04:13:16
That's not Italian at all. It's English it means exactly what it says: concentrate of espresso. And, by the way, the question referred to the programming language!
nico
2010-09-07 17:07:44
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For an Agile shop ... THIS is fantastic... As a dev, it just speaks volumes.
Great Fun: from Implementing Scrum by Clark & vizdos.
Gabriel
2009-05-31 01:53:44
It's nice to see that most ignorance is outside of the Microsoft camp.
John Gietzen
2010-06-16 19:03:09
The last one is so true! I hate people using mixed tabs and spaces!!!
Siu Ching Pong - Asuka Kenji
2010-08-20 20:13:09
Ah, irregular web comic. One of my favorite webcomics, and this is partially why.
Biosci3c
2010-10-11 05:03:27
just like my workplace :) except maybe it shld be "windows is starting up"
iceangel89
2009-06-27 03:57:40
Presumably the comic was made when only those browser existed. Google Chrome and IE 8 were created sometime after 2008 and the other browsers existed before 2008. IE 7 existed in 2005...
Nitrodist
2010-05-23 23:31:11
Even better--they created a transparent GIF, then turned it into a JPEG, then saved it again as a PNG--you get the best all 3 formats!
Lèse majesté
2010-08-24 15:04:23
I actually have this one posted on my office wall as well as the horse flow chart from graph jam :)
Fry
2009-07-23 19:07:17
Man I love that one! We also use microsoft minutes at work, whenever we have no f*****g clue how long it is going to take :)
Morlock
2010-03-06 23:12:18
in the old times of W98 i saw over 65000 hours to go. (Was it a sizeof(int)?) It should move a progressbar about 10 pixels by now ;)
naugtur
2010-04-23 15:01:24
+22
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I didn't see this one which is one of my favorite xkcd :
(His books were kinda intimidating; rappelling down through his skylight seemed like the best option.)
p4bl0
2009-09-05 17:20:41
+6
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HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
UP VAR!!1
VISIBLE VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBAI
Taken from :http://lolcode.com/ KTHXBAI!!
fixxxer
2009-09-24 05:38:34
A:
Mahin
2009-10-01 08:50:52
Being a C# developer, I fail to see the joke. Not because I want to defend C#, but because I don't get it? What has Ruby and Lisp coders against C#?
Statement
2010-05-29 18:44:45
from http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9rvkn/i_made_this_comic_in_my_assembly_language_class/
mcintyre321
2009-10-08 13:46:33
Even worse if they make a "screen capture" with a digital camera. I've had that happen more than once. Also, if there is a bug/issue tracker involved, they may opt to merely give the path to the word2007 doc instead, yep, with a path like c:\documents and settings.... Had that happen last week.
Chris Thornton
2010-03-28 04:24:45
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I wish I could find it: Some suit is doing his drive-by management of the dev team saying "You guys start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
No Refunds No Returns
2009-11-16 22:05:21
+17
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Lately I started reading Geek Hero Comic. My favorite parts so far:
Ondrej Slinták
2009-11-17 18:53:42
+51
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This has made my year.
Some engineer out there has solved P=NP and it's locked up in an electric eggbeater calibration routine. For every 0x5f375a86 we learn about, there are thousands we never see.
Kyle Rozendo
2009-11-18 08:08:54
well... `kill: not enough arguments` really (which is funny too in a way)
Otto Allmendinger
2010-02-28 01:20:53
Not as funny: `kill: 3: Usage: kill [-s sigspec | -signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... orkill -l [exitstatus]`
kzh
2010-03-27 15:46:26
I just don't vote it down because I need another 5 rep. Seriously, this is not half funny and it's a very old image of the "nerd" type of guy. Also the artwork is from the 90s at best.
Camilo Martin
2009-12-08 13:11:22
