Two regular expressions are sitting at a bar and having a drink. A big, context-sensitive string walks over and steals the drink from the first regex. The second says to the first "Are you going to let him bully you like that?" The first replies "Yeah, I'm no match for him."
What is your best programmer joke?
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Re: What is your best programmer joke?
#62There are three kinds of people in the world: the ones who understand binary and the ones who don't.
That's a weird non-joke version. The ones I know are: The usual: There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't. Then there was: There are 11 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't. Which is a riff on: There are 3 kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those who can't. Then along came: There are 10 kinds of people i…
Maybe he's a SQL programmer (a binary column can be true, false or NULL).
Re: What is your best programmer joke?
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you want to participate on the website, you should actually participate. If you do nothing, then other people are going to run the site and you won't have any input.
Why would I want to "actually participate" when 4/5 of the stuff that interests me has already been nuked by a moderator?
What's your point, then? You are explicitly stating that you have interest mostly in passively receiving stuff that's out of the site's scope, not interested in actively participating, and not interested in changing the site orientation.
In other words, the site is not interesting to you, yet you choose to rant about it; very strange. Does the very existence of StackOverflow bother you?
(There are other sites on the Internet, y'know. It's not like SO is preventing you from visiting /r/ProgrammerJokes instead.)
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh god! From the enterprise code I've seen, American large companies must be hotbeds of communism! And now that I think about it, enterprise systems may be fully realized soviet states. There are long queues for often meager returns, there are a large number of factories that produce mysterious junk, security policies are both incomprehensible and harsh, and to get anything done, you have to know somebody.
This is pretty accurate, actually, and has been studied by economists, for whom this was a huge problem: If the free market is supposed to be so great, then why are firms not organized as markets internally? In fact, why do they exist in the first place? In a sense, the existence of firms is evidence that a free market is not the best organizing principle for everything. You may want to start here: http://en.wikipedi…
Since you're referring to the Wikipedia page, you are probably aware that there is a reasonable economic answer related to transaction costs and asymmetric information:
"Instead, for Coase the main reason to establish a firm is to avoid some of the transaction costs of using the price mechanism. These include discovering relevant prices (which can be reduced but not eliminated by purchasing this information through specialists), as well as the costs of negotiating and writing enforceable contracts for each transaction (which can be large if there is uncertainty). Moreover, contracts in an uncertain world will necessarily be incomplete and have to be frequently re-negotiated. The costs of haggling about division of surplus, particularly if there is asymmetric information and asset specificity, may be considerable."
Re: What is your best programmer joke?
#65At a place where I used to work, someone had a car with one of those Virginia "Internet C@pital" license plates. The design has changed over the years, but this one put the @ in a big blue dot right in the lower center of the license plate. Sadly, I can't find a pic of this person's plate, or even that style of plate, anymore. The license number was "CAR JPG". I SO wish I had a pic to prove this.
Internet Catpital? Like, for lolcats?
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#67At a place where I used to work, someone had a car with one of those Virginia "Internet C@pital" license plates. The design has changed over the years, but this one put the @ in a big blue dot right in the lower center of the license plate. Sadly, I can't find a pic of this person's plate, or even that style of plate, anymore. The license number was "CAR JPG". I SO wish I had a pic to prove this.
Not sure if this is the one you are talking about, but a cursory image search on Google led me to this image in a Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbee2828/92718344/ I don't see the '@' anywhere which leads me to believe this may be a fake/photoshop. Still, quite interesting... :)
http://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/virginia-internet-capit...
In your picture it would be covered by the license plate frame.
Re: What is your best programmer joke?
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would I want to "actually participate" when 4/5 of the stuff that interests me has already been nuked by a moderator?
What's your point, then? You are explicitly stating that you have interest mostly in passively receiving stuff that's out of the site's scope, not interested in actively participating, and not interested in changing the site orientation. In other words, the site is not interesting to you, yet you choose to rant about it; very strange. Does the very existence of StackOverflow bother you? (There are other sites on the…
I didn't "explicitly" say any of that. And I'm not "ranting", either.
Other than that, great point.
"Does the very existence of StackOverflow bother you?"
No, but the existence of abusive moderators does.
When I run across locked threads on SO, I'm not searching for "jokes". These are actual programming-related questions.
Please don't imply that I said things that I didn't. Thanks.
Re: What is your best programmer joke?
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least 4/5 of the times it comes up in a Google search (for the stuff I search for, at least), some idiot moderator has closed the question. The message that sends to me is "Your question isn't worthy of our site. Go away." So, yeah, it does make using the site less pleasant, and thus reduces its value to me.
Ditto. I stopped contributing to Stack Overflow because of this. It's a classic example of cart-before-the-horse product thinking. Users aren't there to follow your orders; they're people with actual needs that you're trying to serve. I get that they don't want the site to be overrun with goofy content, because that prevents you from serving other actual needs. But there are better solutions than tasking a large numb…
Yes, the same with Wikipedia. The site has largely been taken over by people who are there simply to "be moderators".
Re: What is your best programmer joke?
#70Why did the Java developer need glasses?
Because he couldn't C#.