Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/17
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–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/01
Steps:
Via [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Related:
Bernd Paysan’s:
The three most 2. common race
1. off-by-one software conditions
errors:
counting
core dumped (Segmentation fault in printf)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/01
Prank your friends by secretly opening this website on their computer while they’re away. Wait for them to return and watch their reaction
[WayBack] Geek Prank 😈😂😜 Windows XP Desktop Prank
There are others too, for instance:
Via: [WayBack] geekprank.com Simulate Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10 and other annoyances in the browser (and switch it to full screen). – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
Edit 20250730: per comments below there is also [Wayback/Archive] Windows XP – Full Screen || Geek Pranks which has two other pranks as well:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/21
From the geek fun department: [WayBack] IP over Avian Carriers – Wikipedia.
I learned through this slightly after the fight to keep HTTP status code 418 (I’m a teapot) which is part of RFC2324 released on April 1st, 1998.
The IP over Avian Carriers is part of three RFCs, all released on April 1st in various years:
–jeroen
via: Http-statuscode ‘I’m a teapot’ is voorlopig veilig – IT Pro – .Geeks – Tweakers
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/11
Since it is the 42th day of this year: Via [WayBack] Di Cleverly – Google+
pedant powers activated !
in regex * is zero or more of the preceding character, but there is no preceding character
as a file glob * is zero or more anything
as an operator * is multiplication, but there are no operands
in sports * next to a stat flags possible cheating
there will be others if I go looking, but I think the point is that the question was ill defined with lack of context, therefore the answer is also ill defined with lack of context, at least that is how I interpreted the answer when I first saw the tv series (it was a radio show before that, but I never heard it)
saying the answer is * is also ill defined and lacks context (i.e. is * a regex or a glob or an operator or …)
also ASCII is not computer software, let alone the most basic computer software, ASCII is simply an agreed mapping from numbers to symbols eg 01000001 = 65 = 0x41 = A
so if 42 was actually hexadecimal, then 42 = B and maybe the question was multi-choice (aka multi-guess), therefore my answer is 44 = D = all of the above
+Martin Krischik in sed, vi, awk, Perl, Python, Posix and many others it is, any exceptions would be painful regex engines to work with IMO
also, I think you’ll find regex is actually older than HHGttG. HHGttG was first a radio play in 1978, regex was coined in the early 1950s for algebra and used in unix in the early 1970s
Sorry to spoil it: groups.google.com – Why 42 ? where in 1993, Douglas Adams writes:
<<
The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an
ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations,
base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk,
stared into the garden and thought ’42 will do’ I typed it out. End of story.
Best,
Douglas Adams
London, UK | d…@dadams.demon.co.uk (dormant)
Currently in Santa Fe, NM | ada…@nic.cerf.net (current)
>>
The first time someone handed me an iPhone with Siri, I asked the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Siri simply gave me information on those specific search terms. (More recently I asked the question again, and Siri answered 42)
Google responded with a reference to Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, “Be excellent to each other”.
I need someone to ask Alexa and report back.
I’m using this to gauge where we are in the possibility of having AI overthrow humanity in the immediate future. 😁
+Adrian Colley You’re mixing regex with “everything in computing”
+Martin Krischik And Douglas Adams worked mainly with Apple and Unix. Apple ripped off the * wildcard from Unix, CPM ripped it off from Apple, and MS-Dos ripped it off from CPM. The fact that DOS used it isn’t relevant. And regex started in 1951. A quick Google search confirmed that. So yes, it was in existence in 1979. GREP was using regex long before 1979. And yes, DA’s programming experience would have exposed him to all this. You seem to be conflating degrees with actual ability.
FYI (geek alert) Unix was popular as a document printing/typesetting system early on hence tools like latex and nroff/troff (especially for printing formulas in computer science papers etc)
(trivia alert) grep comes from the ed (or sed) command g/re/p where re is short for regular expression, it translates kind of as “globally in the file/stream, if the re matches, then print the line”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/02
Many more “Essential Programming Guides” that are not in the O RLY Parody Book Generator for Slack are at [WayBack] O RLY Books.
Related: [WayBack] generate (500×700)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/25
Have a good holiday season!
[WayBack] 50 Shades of Grain – Lars Fosdal – Google+: Adult cereals.
Original from [WayBack] Shopping Can Be Quite Entertaining 20 pics
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/24
Check out [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “It’s actually only “Helvetica” if it comes from the Helvetia region of Europe. Otherwise you have to call it “sparkling Arial””
Too much font goodness:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/17
Remember the introduction of Pokémon during summer 2016? Despite usage being far less by now ([WayBack] 80 Amazing Pokemon Go Statistics and Facts) you might still recollect the odd names the Pokémon Go characters in the Pokédex had: [WayBack] List of Pokémon – Wikipedia.
Back then I had the vague sense that some names reminded me of species, and others of companies. Both appeared to be true, for instance [WayBack] Seel looks awfully familiar to Seal. Domo has many meanings (including a Dutch dairy desert). Oh, and [WayBack] Gloom has quite a few meanings so I’m OK with being confused.
So I was amused bumping into these a while back: Pokémon names versus those of names of start-up and big-data companies:
Is it a Pokemon or a BigData tech?
You is able to tell which nonsense word is Pokémon character and which is the latest craze in #bigdata technology? You just might qualify as #bigdata expert. Much success!
You is able to tell which nonsense word is Pokémon character and which is the latest craze in #bigdata technology? You just might qualify as #bigdata expert. Much success!
The quizes also have very funny descriptions of what the companies behind the names stand (stood?) for, like “Hadoop is distributed system for counting words”.
Via many, including:
Maybe I should turn the GitHub repository in to a Google Assistant Trivia questionaire using a Google Sheet.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/11
Programmer humour from a while back:
“I don’t think I would be comfortable telling my family that I develop PHP either.”
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