It might not be from him at all, but still a nice T-Shirt worthy quote:
1N73LL1G3NC3 15 7H3 4B1L17Y 70 4D4P7 70 CH4NG3.
573PH3N HAWKING
–jeroen
via: https://plus.google.com/+KevinPowick/posts/9D9hsyTwdFu
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1N73LL1G3NC3 15 7H3 4B1L17Y 70 4D4P7 70 CH4NG3. 573PH3N HAWKING
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/01
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Essential drop table animals – now with user-generated content – ThePracticalDev – O RLY?
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/17
Source:
- [WayBack] O RLY Book Covers – John Saddington You can create your own here, [WayBack] too. So good. I found myself giggling way too much…
'; DROP TABLE animals; --Now with user-generated content!
O RLY? @ThePracticalDev
Via:
- [Archive.is] Didn’t know that one – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
- [WayBack] Didn’t know that one – Bernhard “Bard” Döbler – Google+
Also available as [WayBack] Big picture.
–jeroen
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Requirements to write multi threaded code
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/01
Steps:
- get gist.github.com – Developers must be this tall to write multi threaded code
- render to PNG/PDF/HTML
- attach to wall
Via [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Related:
- [WayBack] ::bholley – Must be This Tall to Write Multi-Threaded Code
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zinZmE3Ogk&t=48m18s
- [WayBack] FTFY – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
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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Geek Prank 😈😂😜 Windows XP Desktop Prank
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:
- [Wayback/Archive] Hacker Typer Online | GeekPrank
- [Wayback/Archive] Fake Broken Screen Prank || Geek Prank (these images are too low a resolution to be usable)
--jeroen
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IP over Avian Carriers
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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Di Cleverly – Google+: on 42 and geek stuff
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/11
Since it is the 42th day of this year: Via [WayBack] Di Cleverly – Google+
- Adrian Colley
For a slightly more serious answer, asterisk is most commonly used (in computing) to mean “repeat the previous pattern zero or more times”. In HHGttG, it’s suggested that if the Question and the Answer were known at the same time, the universe would vanish and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is a theory that this has happened several times. Zero or more times, you might say.
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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
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+Perry Winkle not ever regular expression. And as i said the books predates regex.
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+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
- Jeroen Wiert Pluimers
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. 😁
- Di Cleverly
+Martin Krischik he played the guitar left handed! Wow! You really do learn something new everyday!
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+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.
- Perry Winkle (Shy Geek)
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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Reddit: parodies on O RLY Books
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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50 Shades of Grain
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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It’s actually only “Helvetica” if it comes from the Helvetia region of Europe. Otherwise you have to call it “sparkling Arial”
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:
- [WayBack] Steve on Twitter: “I import my Helvetica. Get it delivered via Courier.”
- [WayBack] Dr Rachel Franks on: “I wanted to laugh at this Tweet but unfortunately I’m Comic Sans at the moment …”
- [WayBack] Neil Yamit on Twitter: “Does this apply to Georgia, too? If it’s not from Georgia (the country), we refer to it as “thicc Times””
- [WayBack] Intactive on Twitter: “My goldfish is suffocating. It’s Gill Sans.”
- [WayBack] 🎄🎁🎅🏿 Charlie Galvin 🗽🌊 on Twitter: “People who make jokes like this may find a (MS) Trebuchet aimed at them. If they aren’t imprisoned for a Century.”
- [WayBack] Simon Gerathy on Twitter: “The New Roman worshipped serifs. The Helveticans didn’t buy into that projection and ordered the New Roman lashed: “10 Times New Roman””
- [WayBack] Victor Martinez on Twitter：”I developed a grunged one called Hellvetica… the Helvetica that came from hell”
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “That just sounds like Arial again.”
- [WayBack] Darrell W. Royter on Twitter: “Thank goodness Twitter can bring people together to share typeface jokes. Imagine if you had to wait for them by courier.”
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “I agree. If you had to wait, they wouldn’t have nearly the same impact.”
- [WayBack] Daryl Sng on Twitter: “Are you saying the humour is so bad that the thread is sans comic?”
- [WayBack] isral Duke on Twitter: “The baseline of this joke is a slab of hot metal.”
- [WayBack] Mark Astle on Twitter: “If only there were other Swiss typefaces in the Univers…”
- [WayBack] Douglas King on Twitter: “As a former sommelier and current technologist, I can say the D.O.C.G. for fonts is very protective.”
- [WayBack] Doug Lindsay on Twitter: “Plus, it’s actually spelled “Helutica” it’s just that the “u’s” were carved to look like “v’s” 🥛🍪😧😌🎄”
- [WayBack] Gary Hudson on Twitter：”What Univers are you living in?”
- [WayBack] schrepfler on Twitter: “It’s only Arial if it come from “under the sea” 🧜♀️”
- [WayBack] James Tiberius Shirtless Kirk 🚀 on Twitter: “I prefer using Omar Serif to bridge the gap.”
- [WayBack] Rob on Twitter: “Sheesh… as many Arial jokes as stars in the Univers. In the Futura, read the other posts to avoid the Myriad of repeats, and we can have a Slate if fresh puns. 😉”
- [WayBack] Jared Spool on Twitter: “In authentic Helvetica, you can taste the European soil. And a hint of socks.”
- [WayBack] Andrew on Twitter: “Papyrus is the worst fruit sparkling juice drink from Egypt.”
- [WayBack] Carol Sabik-Jaffe on Twitter: “Oh come on. I shot the serif.”
- [WayBack] Patrick John Gillam on Twitter: “The originating tweet is brilliant, but the replies, including this one, are a font of strained dad jokes.”
- [WayBack] Rob on Twitter: “As Bart Simpson would say, “Ay Caranda!””
- [WayBack] Sarah Clark on Twitter：”Microsoft’s self driving car won’t start moving until you Segoe”
- [WayBack] Sara S. on Twitter: “Uh, technically it’s “Arial’s monster””
- [WayBack] Anna on Twitter: “Methode Helvetique is also allowable.”
- [WayBack] cumberickman on Twitter: “This is an Optima(l) tweet.”
- [WayBack] Scott Delinger Twitterissä: “Kern it off. You are a Font of Trouble.”
- [WayBack] The Dadbodbarian on Twitter: “Got it, Helvetica is from eastern Switzerland.”
- [WayBack] Maxim Raginsky 👓☕️🥃 on Twitter: “I was laughing so hard I fell and had a Fraktur.”
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “Bold of you to underscore your attempt.”
- [WayBack] Maxim Raginsky 👓☕️🥃 on Twitter: “It felt justified.… “
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter：”Next time, start with a more oblique hint and track the reaction of your readers.”
- [WayBack] Maxim Raginsky 👓☕️🥃 on Twitter：”But that would interfere with my original indent!”
- [WayBack] Kim Brill on Twitter: “The typeface jokes made my holiday.
Seriously.
Signed,
Graphic Designer who Worships Herb Lubalin, an Avant Garde Typographer.” - [WayBack] Stephen Mitchell: “Sans Comic”
- [WayBack] Emile van Raaij on Twitter: “Sounds like a line from a Quentin Palatino movie.… “
- [WayBack] Akash Sahu on Twitter: “If the handwriting is unclear Please adjust the Arial”
- [WayBack] Jay Zalowitz on Twitter：”This is a really narrow view of Arial”
- [WayBack] Heelontheshovel on Twitter: “What a character.”
- [WayBack] Disoptimist Twitterissä: ”
“Avant Guard you make me hard but like
Helvetica you’ve been played.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-e-oh-oh-oh
I’ll mock it up, show you what I got
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-e-oh-oh-oh
I’ll mock it up, show you what I got”” - [WayBack] Jessica Burns on Twitter: “@lilolov3 Imagine if this was the topic of the next font documentary 😂”
- [WayBack] Jamie Summers ( aka Sister Chava Kiki) on Twitter: “But Alte Haas Grotesk!”
- [WayBack] Rolf Pendall Twitter वर: “True typophiliac? Take a look at this book:”
- [WayBack] as in queen by Leda Black | Blurb Books (image below)
- [WayBack] just Phil on Twitter: “No more font jokes = sans Comic.”
- [WayBack] Thorin Jacobs Twitter: “This is why it’s absolutely critical to keep Calcium out of Europe.”
- [WayBack] Ralph M. Prescott on Twitter: “Stop! I kern only take so many…”
- [WayBack] Ahmed Shalaby on Twitter: “Fontastic tweet!”
- [WayBack] Smockey the Bear on Twitter: “Wingding clan is for the children”
- [WayBack] Paul Whitelam on Twitter: “A myriad of reasons to like this🤓👍”
- [WayBack] Chizzy Ndukwe N on Twitter: “Well, I prefer a visiting virtual web locations that give me the sense of breathing Oxygen. The serifs kept me from non-web places like Helvetica”
- [WayBack] Emily Hiestand on Twitter: “Ha! Helvetica is an elegant and enduring font, but is it really the Futura?”
- [WayBack] J on Twitter: “Best teeet in the Univers”
–jeroen
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Start-up or Pokémon? Big-data or Pokémon?
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:
- [WayBack: Startup or Pokémon]
- Newest[WayBack] Is it Pokemon or Big Data ?
Is it a Pokemon or a BigData tech?
- New [WayBack] Is it Pokémon or #bigdata technology? (it uses some direct Japanese -> English translations of Pokémon so it’s extra hard).
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!
- Old [Archive.is] Is it Pokémon or #bigdata technology?
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:
- [WayBack] I failed at 7 questions: Is it Pokémon or #bigdata technology?…. – Fabian S. Biehn – Google+
- [WayBack Image] [WayBack] Big Data Borat @BigDataBorat Follow More Result of Pokémon or #bigdata survey in
- [WayBack] HN Search powered by Algolia: startup or pokemon
- [WayBack] Is it Pokémon or big data technology? | Hacker News
- [WayBack] Take the Test: Big Data or Pokémon? – The New Stack
Maybe I should turn the GitHub repository in to a Google Assistant Trivia questionaire using a Google Sheet.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 