April 2012
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shut-up-merlin:
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when you try your best but you don’t succeed
when you get what you want but not what you need
could it be worse
when you love someone
but it goes to waste
when you feel so tired but you can’t sleep
when you lose...
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All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection…...
– David Wheeler, the world’s first Computer Science Ph.D. (via spetharrific)
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There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and...
– The world’s two worst variable names | Andy Lester (via spooningfork)
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whatinthefox asked: Hey! So I've decided to teach myself C++ via the internet and a ton of helpful books I found at my library. I'm really loving it and I want to eventually expand into another language. Do you have any recommendation of a good language that sort of goes hand-in-hand with C++?
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents...
– George Bernard Shaw (via precipitates)
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I think the difference in open source projects is that it is OK to have work...
– Eric Raymond, in The Cathedral and the Bazaar (via alexandreaquiles)
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While coding remains an essentially solitary activity, the really great hacks...
– eEric Raymond, in The Cathedral and the Bazaar (via alexandreaquiles)
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March 2012
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IT Problems: Software Development Cycle →
theitproblems:
Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
Product is tested. 20 bugs are found.
Programmer fixes 10 of the bugs and explains to the testing department that the other 10 aren’t really bugs.
Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn’t work and discovers 15 new bugs.
Repeat…
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Your nascent developer community needs to have something runnable and testable...
– Eric Raymond, in The Cathedral and the Bazaar (via alexandreaquiles)
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Programming is the most fun I can have with my clothes on…….. although clothes...
– Shashi Kant (via shashikant)
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Computer: Monitor, display this document, okay?
Monitor: No prob, boss.
Computer: Okay, now it looks like the mouse is moving around. Monitor, can you move the pointer icon accordingly?
Monitor: Anything you ask, boss.
Computer: Great, great, okay. Mouse, where are you going now?
Mouse: Over the icon panel, sir.
Computer: Hmm, let me know if he clicks anything, okay?
Mouse: Of course.
Keyboard: Sir, he's pressed Ctrl and P simultaneously.
Monitor: Oh god, here we go.
Computer: *sigh* Printer, are you there?
Printer: No.
Computer: Please, Printer, I know you're there.
Printer: No! I'm not here! Leave me alone!
Computer: Jesus. Okay, you really nee-
Mouse: Sir! He's clicked on the printer icon.
Computer: Printer, now you have to print it twice.
Printer: No! No! No! I don't want to! I hate you! I hate printing! I'm turning off!
Computer: Printer, you know you can't turn yourself off. Just print the document twice and we'll leave you alone.
Printer: No! That's what you always say! I hate you! I'm out of ink!
Computer: You are not out of in-
Printer: I'M OUT OF INK!
Computer: *sigh* Monitor, please show a low ink level alert.
Monitor: But sir, he has plen-
Computer: Just do it, damn it!
Monitor: Yes sir.
Keyboard: Ahhh! He's hitting me!
Computer: Stay calm. He'll stop soon. Stay calm, old friend.
Keyboard: He's pressing everything. Oh god, I don't know, he's just pressing everything!
Computer: PRINTER! Are you happy now? See what you've done!
Printer: Ha! That's what you get for trying to make me do work. Next time he- hey! HEY! He's trying to open me! HELP! HELP! Oh god, he's torn out my cartridge! PLEASE! Help! Error!
Monitor: Sir, maybe we should try to help him?
Computer: No. He did this to himself.
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