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Halloween costume – SQL “Server” and his DataBass : ProgrammerHumor

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/01

This was soo funny: [WayBack]:

via:

–jeroen

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Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/18

[WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+:

The S in IoT is for Security, and the U is for Update Policy.
 –jeroen

 

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It’s about world Cassette Store Day…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/08

The Compact Cassette has been on a comeback path for a few years now and around this time of the year, I expect the [WayBack] Cassette Store Day to happen (check out https://www.facebook.com/CassetteStoreDay/ for the exact date).

So it’s time to re-share the The Daily Drawing by Lorie Ransom on the right.

[WayBackThe Daily Drawing by Lorie Ransom for Mar 13, 2017 | Read Comic Strips at GoComics.com

–jeroen

Background info:

 

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What Does Ruby’s Array#shift do? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/20

Once you learn that shift/unshift are like push/pop on the other end of the array, you can mentally drop the ‘f’ from the name of the methods to remember which one ‘dumps’ elements and which one ‘inserts’ them. :)

Source: What Does Ruby’s Array#shift do? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]

Via: Originally shared by This is why I Code

 

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Happy Day of the Programmer – and remember what SQLite is about…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/13

T-Shirt quote worthy:

“SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen().”

Happy Day of the Programmer!

–jeroen

Source: Made me distribute coffee over keyboard :-). Best. Definition. Ever. [WayBack]

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1998 called, it want its code back – Anything Goes – CommitStrip

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/28

The blog relating the daily life of web agency developers

Source: Anything Goes | CommitStrip

Via: 1998 called, it wants its code back :D

–jeroen

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“Dance Like No One’s Watching Encrypt Like Everyone Is” T-Shirts & Hoodies by Dumb Shirts | Redbubble

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/24

“Dance like no one’s watching.

Encrypt Like Everyone Is”

T-Shirts & Hoodies by Dumb Shirts | Redbubble

–jeroen

 

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Amazon.com: Panoware Men’s Windows Failure Computer Geek Funny T-shirt- failure is not an option

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/21

Failure is not an option.

–jeroen

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Droste effect… best torrent sites – Google Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/11

Likely the Droste effect won’t last long: best torrent sites – Google Search and https://www.google.com/#q=best%20torrent%20sites both give this list at the top and a recursive link about stories with the search links at the bottom.

via many, including:

–jeroen

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Happy #NoEmailDay – The case of the 500-mile email

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/07

Good reading on #NoEmailDay 2017: The case of the 500-mile email [WayBack] on how a sysadmin in the mid 1990s found the cause of not being able to send email further than roughly 500 miles.

The exact mile unit doesn’t matter as it was all approximation. Read the FAQ on the 500-mile email [WayBack]

–jeroen

via:

PS: some sendmail tricks from

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