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Branch removal: cartoon by Mike Luckovinch on how dictators operate

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/14

Not limited to the current rise of far right dictators: a repetition of the steps taken a century ago: [Wayback/Archive] Branch removal – Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (actual link not visible in the EU because of GDPR: [Wayback] AJC GDPR Support)

Branch removal: Executive branch of a tree with chainsaw at the tip having cut of the legislative and judicial branches.

Branch removal: Executive branch of a tree with chainsaw at the tip having cut of the legislative and judicial branches.

Via

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Happy Towel Day: today is the 42nd towel day in remembrance of a truly remarkable author.

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/25

Happy Towel Day!

Today is the 42nd towel day in remembrance of a truly remarkable author.

jeroen

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Dependencies

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/28

Last week in Delphi developer switching to C# – Stack Overflow « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff I wrote about having a broad toolset.

Having such a toolset however does not mean you should stuff your project with dependencies. Choosing a limited set of tools is a very important part of building solid projects.

It does not mean you should avoid dependencies, just that you need to be aware on them and how they add up.

To get a feel for that, the comics on the right and below.

Sources:

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Geek And Poke: The New Developer

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/03

Old, but still so funny because it is so true: [WayBackGeek And Poke: The New Developer

–jeroen

via:

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A few more T-Shirt quotes: Trying to add a feature, The Internet is Broken, etc

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/30

Still funy: Trying to add a feature.

Done vs Progress.

Done vs Progress graph

Done vs Progress graph

Internet Is broken So I’m Outside Today T-shirts

–jeroen

 

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Happy Towel Day

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/25

Happy 15th Towel Day.

In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

–jeroen

via Towel Day – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Tom Lehrer – New Math Animated – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/19

via: Tom Lehrer – New Math Animated – YouTube.

Base 8 is like base 10 when you miss two fingers…

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20 Jokes That Only Intellectuals Will Understand. Number 5 Took Me A Minute.

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/11

As an almost chemist, I like 11 (:

20 Jokes That Only Intellectuals Will Understand. Number 5 Took Me A Minute..

–jeroen

via: Arjen Lentz – Google+.

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Big Data (via: Twitter / wtrsld)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/09

Big Data.

Cuckle (:

via: Twitter / wtrsld: This really should be the only ….

Big Data

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Thomas Kang – Google+ – I found these conversions some time back on the web and was…

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/07

I almost wetted my pants:

common conversions

–jeroen

via: Thomas Kang – Google+ – I found these conversions some time back on the web and was….

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