Category Archives: humor

Island/Lake recursion

Posted on August 9, 2010 by aaron

The Island and Lake Combination. For those who are curious which is the largest (island in a lake on an)^2 on an island. Because recursion isn’t just for programmers and computers.

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Hacker News | “it was designed to restrict the kind of trouble programmers can get themselves …

Posted on June 16, 2010 by aaron

Great one liner on PL design: Every programming language is designed to restrict trouble programmers can get into. The key is that they all have different ideas of trouble. via Hacker News

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<humor> Yeah, Toast

Posted on June 3, 2010 by aaron

So, for those not familiar, I go by toast` on the programming language IRC channels. So when I saw this video come up on youtube, with Mr. Engineer (my preferred TF2 class), I had a feeling of a certain kind … Continue reading →

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[ot] 500 mile email bug

Posted on February 19, 2010 by aaron

Just a humorous software bug story, the case of the 500 mile email: “We’re having a problem sending email out of the department.” “What’s the problem?” I asked. “We can’t send mail more than 500 miles,” the chairman explained. I … Continue reading →

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