What's your favorite "programmer" cartoon?
Personally I like this one: P.S. Do not hotlink the cartoon without the site's permission please. ...
pop-culture
Best programming novel to take on holiday
I am about enjoy a two week break in Spain where I expect to have lots of time for relaxing and reading. I normally read a lot of non-fiction so I'm looking for novel suggestions. If there is another Cryptonomicon out there I'd love to hear about it! UPDATE: In the end I took four books including Quicksilver. Quicksilver was fanta...
Humor in code
When you are writing code or naming products, which sources of cultural references are you most likely to draw from? Which reference sources do you think are more likely to be universally understood? For example when findbugs sees that you've implemented equals() without overriding hashCode() it suggest that you implement it by returni...
Places where computers are used correctly in movies
Following the egregious use question, other than Antitrust (to some extent), and The Matrix episode where Trinity uses nmap in a legit fashion, what movie/tv/book references use computers correctly? Clarification - I don't merely mean someone sending mail like in You've Got Mail - I'm thinking a geeky film/show/book that should use it r...
Worst technobabble you've ever heard
Following the Egregious pop culture perversion of programming, what is the most outlandishly insane technobabble you have ever heard, either in fiction or real life? Extra points to those unfortunates whose real life stories beat Hollywood. Note: feel free to sketch out what would be necessary for such gibberish to actually work. ...
When did people first start thinking 'C is portable assembler' ?
It seems to be an 'accepted concept' in the popular culture of programming languages that 'C is portable assembler'. I have first heard this at least 15 years ago. But when did it really become part of the popular culture? Note: if you don't agree that 'C is portable assembler', please just skip this question. This question is about ...
Programming lectures teaser
Me and my friend will be running the C++ programming lectures in school from November. (The basics of programming) Obviously programming is still not such an attractive or easy subject that would be popular between young people. So we decided we want to put some teaser posters in school that might help attract people to come and see a...