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I once told an Objective-C joke, but nobody got the message. The thing about NTP jokes is you have to get the timing right. I broke up with Java last week, an

I once told an Objective-C joke, but nobody got the message. The thing about NTP jokes is you have to get the timing right. I broke up with Java last week, and I still couldn't get any closure. (I could go on, but I'll spare you - yes, I just thought of these, is it that obvious?)

kirubakaran 15y ago
Please go on. These are awesome.
- mirkules 15y ago
  Alright... Java is write once, run anywhere. Perl is write once, turn and run. OO is like real life: you inherit properties, you cheat a little, then you get divorced, and you're left with an old, broken model Bash is named after the monkey who successfully typed out Hamlet. Korn shell was named after the band, and even though America won the cold war, UTF-8 was a notable casualty, so we couldn't use the backward R The whole class was confused after Jimmy sang 10 little endians and stopped at the second one. Thank you, I'll be here all week.
  - paraschopra 15y ago
    >Thank you, I'll be here all week. Was this supposed to be a joke too? :)
  - mirkules 15y ago
    I realized this morning that Jimmy should have stopped at the first little endian.
    - CoffeeDregs 15y ago
      Nah. he should stop after the tenth (second). iterate over (0,1) , but sing (1,10) or i+1. excellent jokes. EDIT: Oh crap. Was that a joke about stopping on the first endian? If so, I just committed a classic geek fail...
      - mirkules 15y ago
        I was referring to "little endianness", where the least significant bit is on the left, which makes 10 = 1, whereas in big endian it would be 2 :)
        aneesh 15y ago
        Not quite right. In a little endian system, the least significant byte is the leftmost one (ie, lowest address). The order of bits within a byte is the same regardless of endianness. So 10 is always 2.
        mirkules 15y ago
        Ah, well I stand corrected, Mr. Hamming :)
32ftpersecond 15y ago
Just read these all in Rodney Dangerfield's voice, delightful.
- sbierwagen 15y ago
  I tell ya, my programming language don't get no respect at all. I was telling my coworker about the library I was writing in my 10% time, and he asked if it was used for steering a turtle! No respect at all... Our meetups don't get a lot of traffic either. Last time only one guy showed up, and he was in the wrong room! Turned out he was looking for the cooler, more hip meetup across the hall-- it was for Ada! No respect at all... I told my boss he should give me a raise, that developers for my language were in big demand. He said from who, Fischer-Price? I tell him no, that Facebook was looking for guys like me, and he said that would only be happening if they're looking for a guy to rewrite existing code into a language used more widely and was more corporate friendly-- like EmacsLisp!

kirubakaran 15y ago

Please go on. These are awesome.

mirkules 15y ago
Alright... Java is write once, run anywhere. Perl is write once, turn and run. OO is like real life: you inherit properties, you cheat a little, then you get divorced, and you're left with an old, broken model Bash is named after the monkey who successfully typed out Hamlet. Korn shell was named after the band, and even though America won the cold war, UTF-8 was a notable casualty, so we couldn't use the backward R The whole class was confused after Jimmy sang 10 little endians and stopped at the second one. Thank you, I'll be here all week.
- paraschopra 15y ago
  >Thank you, I'll be here all week. Was this supposed to be a joke too? :)
- mirkules 15y ago
  I realized this morning that Jimmy should have stopped at the first little endian.
  - CoffeeDregs 15y ago
    Nah. he should stop after the tenth (second). iterate over (0,1) , but sing (1,10) or i+1. excellent jokes. EDIT: Oh crap. Was that a joke about stopping on the first endian? If so, I just committed a classic geek fail...
    - mirkules 15y ago
      I was referring to "little endianness", where the least significant bit is on the left, which makes 10 = 1, whereas in big endian it would be 2 :)
      - aneesh 15y ago
        Not quite right. In a little endian system, the least significant byte is the leftmost one (ie, lowest address). The order of bits within a byte is the same regardless of endianness. So 10 is always 2.
        mirkules 15y ago
        Ah, well I stand corrected, Mr. Hamming :)

32ftpersecond 15y ago

Just read these all in Rodney Dangerfield's voice, delightful.

sbierwagen 15y ago
I tell ya, my programming language don't get no respect at all. I was telling my coworker about the library I was writing in my 10% time, and he asked if it was used for steering a turtle! No respect at all... Our meetups don't get a lot of traffic either. Last time only one guy showed up, and he was in the wrong room! Turned out he was looking for the cooler, more hip meetup across the hall-- it was for Ada! No respect at all... I told my boss he should give me a raise, that developers for my language were in big demand. He said from who, Fischer-Price? I tell him no, that Facebook was looking for guys like me, and he said that would only be happening if they're looking for a guy to rewrite existing code into a language used more widely and was more corporate friendly-- like EmacsLisp!