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My favorite on this vein is: "There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't."
I like this variation: There are 10 type of people in the world: Those who understand binary Those who don't And those who count from zero
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who didn't expect this joke to be in base three.
Sticker on car: "My other car is a cdr".
Why don't communists make good Java programmers? The class system has dissolved and the state controls everything.
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.
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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?
If you're unhappy about a question being closed (the community can and does make mistakes) then bring it up on meta-SO. If the question was closed by mistake then more often than not it'll be re-opened if you explain why.
To go off topic a bit here - all these SO articles that are not pinpointed programming questions are always closed or locked. You can no longer ask these kind of open ended, leading to a debate kind of questions on SO anymore. The questions have to be very focused and narrow so that someone can answer it to get points. Its really disappointing but that is just the way the community took it in - pedantic.
On SO, mod points are granted by how many "points" you have. The idea is that if you have that many points, you got them by asking good questions, writing good answers, and generally being a good citizen on the site. But if you allow jokes or open-ended questions, then people get tons of points and mod powers even it they don't really contribute to the content of the site. It would help if they allowed open-ended que…
And then we'd have quora, which would not be Stack Overflow. The intention of the site from day one was to encourage specific answerable programming questions that do not involve endless open ended discussion.
I truly believe this narrow scope of acceptable question type is why the site is hugely popular.
I don't understand how people don't get this even after five and a half years.
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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.