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Twisted Doodles on science

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/20

I while ago, I ‘discovered’ Twisted Doodles. She sells cards, T-shirts, etc of some of them too.

I especially love the science doodles (some of which you can buy):

You can get the super large images by clicking the links below.

–jeroen

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Java is not slow – Programmer’s Life : Programmer’s Life

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/05

(:

string sender;
sender = "Duda Nogueira";
Programmer: Come on, stop that crap that Java is slow...
Programmer: Wait, I’ll show you my code to prove that Java is not slow. You’ll see it...
Programmer: Wait, the IDE is starting...
Programmer: Just a moment... It’s almost done...
Programmer: Just a little bit... You’ll see how fast it is...
Alex: zzzzzzzz—
T-shirt: Just wait and get a coffee

Source: Java is not slow – Programmer’s Life : Programmer’s Life

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Technical Debt – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-03 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/03

Is it funny because it so true? Would it be funnier if it weren’t true?

  • Boss: Did you finish the software yet?
  • Dilbert: No, I’m still paying off the technical debt from the last programmer you rushed.
  • Boss: I don’t know what that means.
  • Dilbert: Well, that explains a lot.

[WayBack] Technical Debt – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-03 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

–jeroen

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Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/01

Happy new year everyone!

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.- Julio Olalla – Marjan Venema – Google+

[WayBack]

–jeroen

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Wally And Agile Programming – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2016-07-30 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/31

Boss: I’ll ask Wally to write this software. I haven’t seen him since he took that agile programming class.

Source: Wally And Agile Programming – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2016-07-30 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

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Ken Thompson – quotes – Reflections on Trust

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/21

Some of the [Wayback] Ken Thompson – Wikiquote entries come from a great [Wayback] 1983 ACM Turing Award Acceptance Lecture [Wayback] “Reflections on Trusting Trust”.

That lecture used to be on http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

But it isn’t, and was not in the WayBack machine and neither in the Google Cache [Archive.is] because of the [Wayback/Archive.is] robots.txt. Historic link rot galore!

Edit 20210728: by now it is in the Wayback machine again; the earliest archived copy is from 2001, it also shows that as of april 2015 it is gone from the bell labs server.

The lecture is about [Wayback] compiler viruses and viruses actually did this at least a few times: Wayback: Delphi in 2009 and to [Wayback] XCode in 2015.

A few nice links from [Wayback] ACM Classic: Reflections on Trusting Trust – Google Groups though:

And archived versions of (I hope accurate) copies of the article:

Finally I found a PDF copy of the original ACM prints that Greg Ganger of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University has online. It’s archived too.

–jeroen

Further reading:

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Noooooo!!!! – surprise for Cookie Day

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/04

Though from Mark Parisi, it’s not on offthemark.com (any more?), but still floats around:

Empty Trash, Delete Cookies, No!

It’s starring Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch. Who doesn’t love the two starring together.

Surely you’ll like Cookie Day – 4th Dec, 2016 | Days Of The Year

–jeroen

via

 

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Single Malt Fiber…

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/24

Via [WayBack] Office so, am Nebentisch: “Mumble, mumble, single mode, mumble, single mode fiber, mumble””Ich höre die Hälfte der Zeit Single Malt. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

While you’re waiting for the packet exchange anyway, enjoy 45 minutes of uninterrupted Lagavulin™ Single Malt Scotch Whisky-drinking bliss with Nick Offerman by the Yule Log Fireplace… and you don’t even need to exchange words… (thanks René Riech).

Or as a close friend would describe it: genitaal…

— more —

 

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Traces of Nuts – Brutally sliced in to multiple pieces | Comedy Card Company

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/07


“Looks like the victim was brutally sliced in to multiple pieces”;  “It’s over here, Sarge” Humorous cartoon by award winning Australian artist Tim Whyatt.

Source: Traces of Nuts – Brutally sliced in to multiple pieces | Comedy Card Company

Much better image quality than the one I saw floating around on G+ a while ago.

Even larger high quality images are at 1 and 2.

–jeroen

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Fun deciphering thermometers

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/03

From a while ago: a Norwegian (left) and German (right) thermometer. In dialect. Because.

Anyone having more of these in other dialects?

Sources:

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