Via: [WayBack] Adrian Marius Popa – Google+
Larger pictures are in the top link.
–jeroen
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Geek And Poke: NoSQL
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/22
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“Here’a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer.” 25th anniversary
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/24
Today 25 years ago: [WayBack] Dilbert Comic Strip on 1995-06-24 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
Wally approaches another employee and says, “Hold it right there, buddy.”
Wally continues, “That scruffy beard . . . those suspenders . . . that smug expression . . .”
Wally concludes, “You’re one of those condescending Unix computer users!”
The man responds, “Here’a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer.”
It was a play on the tiny Here’s a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer fragment from [WayBack] single.h:
#if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32
#error "Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer."
#endif
Not much has changed for Dilbert, apart that by now, the transcripts have been put on-line, something I wanted to do some 15 years ago with OCR.
Seems somebody did it, and made it official too. Woot!
On the computing side, we still seem to be well in the 64-bit era, just like when I posted 20 years ago today: Here’s a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer.
I wonder that really has changed in the past 5 years, and how long the “here’s a nickel” will stay relevant.
Via these tweets that helped me remind to post:
- [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp auf Twitter: “If it is not Linux, it is broken. If it is not Bash, it is broken. This is 2019. Grow the fuck up.… “
- [WayBack] Lukas Thorwald Hey on Twitter: “Every OS not called “VMS”, is just a nice try. VMS does real (parallel computing) clustering even across architectures (AXP/Integrity) and today’s operating systems would be nothing without features “borrowed” from VMS. Windows NT is just a rewritten VMS System.”
- [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24 Here, have a nickel.… “
- [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “I almost wet my pants. The days (: I think Lukas is right BTW. Lot’s of what we do now has been done eons ago. We combine parts in different ways though, and do that in a much more rapid fashion. Which both make the lessons learned back then way more important than ever before.”
There is more gold in that thread. See below (:
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Huge meta-thread by @Foone saturday on VIRTUAL THRIFTING
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/06
This was an awesome thread: [WayBack] Thread by @Foone: Someone (I think in the replies to the LGR “no thrifting during the crisis” tweet) suggested we do VIRTUAL THRIFTING! which is a great idea… saved from this [Archive.is] Twitter thread.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf.
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/01
[WayBack] Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf. – Steven Vaughan-Nichols – Google+
Related:
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Ian Sausage on Twitter: “Me: What’s the wifi password? Barman: You need to buy a drink first. Me: Okay, I’ll have a coke. ..”
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/01
Great thread with many nice WiFi passwords, network names and device names: [WayBack] Ian Sausage on Twitter: “Me: What’s the wifi password? Barman: You need to buy a drink first. Me: Okay, I’ll have a coke…”.
Other nice network names or passwords from the same thread:
- disconnected
- surveillance van
- honeypot
- say please
- TellNobody
- Loading…
- fucking shit router
- LOWER CASE NO SPACES
- Please enter virus
- I don’t give you the password
- like us on Facebook
- you can’t have it
- I don’t know it either
- kiss me
- order first
–jeroen
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My other computer is a data center Stickers and T-shirts — DevStickers
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/30
Want : [WayBack] My other computer is a data center Stickers and T-shirts — DevStickers
Via: [WayBack] Ich trage schon seit dem Studium schon keine Uhr mehr, weil ich meine Existenz vor NTP-fähigen Geräten zubringe, von denen die meisten nebenbei bemerkt … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Related: [WayBack] Urs Hölzle – Google+ My other computer is a data center
–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.
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Sasha Laundy on Twitter: “The best debugger ever made is a good night’s sleep.”
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/26
Very similar to “you get the best ideas while sleeping“:
[WayBack/Archive.is] Sasha Laundy on Twitter: “The best debugger ever made is a good night’s sleep.”
Via: [WayBack] So true it hurts – CodeProject – Google+
For me, taking a shower and contemplating during a commute are good debuggers too. But sleeping is still the best.
Hope you enjoyed Christmas, good luck on your debugging ventures!
–jeroen
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“A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.” – Niklaus Wirth
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/19
These quotes remind me so much of a project from a while ago I rolled into and forgot to ask them if they not just nodded “yes” when I asked them “do you understand de concept of technical debt”?
- Development management there didn’t understand
[WayBack/Archive.is] Programming Wisdom on Twitter: “”A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.” – Niklaus Wirth” - Past developers didn’t have the guts to say no, but just went ahead, did it in a buggy way
[WayBack/Archive.is] Programming Wisdom on Twitter: “”Just because people tell you it can’t be done, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it can’t be done. It just means that they can’t do it.” -… https://t.co/cPxbvXjrBn” - And the state of software was the usual thing
[WayBack/Archive.is] Programming Wisdom on Twitter: “”We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” – Ellen Ullman”
–jeroen
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Wirk-, Blind- und Scheinleistung auch für Nicht-Elektroniker
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/29
Endlich eine Sinnvolle Definition der 3 Leistungsarten: Wirk-, Blind- und Scheinleistung auch für Nicht-Elektroniker
[WayBack] leistungen.gif (746×746)
Source [WayBack] MTM-Mess- & Stromversorgungstechnik e.U.: Bibliothek – Elektro Humor
Via [WayBack] Erich K – Google+
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 