Why XKCD sucks today
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Am I the only one who fails to understand what it means most of the time? I feel stupid every time I read it and can't figure it out, but I can't stop reading the damned thing either. The other site that explains it doesn't really help, since it no longer is funny once explained. A comic shouldn't require the reader to have a &#$&! PhD in nuclear physics to understand it. For instance, WTF is he on about in today's one? (or yesterday's, whichever it is). grumble grumble...
I thought it to be a reference to Duke Nukem but if it's not i still think its funny :-\ But in general you are right
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I guess its difficult to be smell funny everyday, unless you are me. :laugh:
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
If you flew R/C Helicopters and had as many close scrapes with the ground as I do, you would smell funny too. Oh wait.... :laugh:
Fortunately, the T-Rex 550 touched the ground only with its landing gear up to now. The 450 was not quite so lucky after starting to roll without very much control. What do you fly with?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
Am I the only one who fails to understand what it means most of the time? I feel stupid every time I read it and can't figure it out, but I can't stop reading the damned thing either. The other site that explains it doesn't really help, since it no longer is funny once explained. A comic shouldn't require the reader to have a &#$&! PhD in nuclear physics to understand it. For instance, WTF is he on about in today's one? (or yesterday's, whichever it is). grumble grumble...
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Am I the only one who fails to understand what it means most of the time? I feel stupid every time I read it and can't figure it out, but I can't stop reading the damned thing either. The other site that explains it doesn't really help, since it no longer is funny once explained. A comic shouldn't require the reader to have a &#$&! PhD in nuclear physics to understand it. For instance, WTF is he on about in today's one? (or yesterday's, whichever it is). grumble grumble...
The comic is a tribute to Rowdy Roddy Piper...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Fortunately, the T-Rex 550 touched the ground only with its landing gear up to now. The 450 was not quite so lucky after starting to roll without very much control. What do you fly with?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
CDP1802 wrote:
The 450 was not quite so lucky
Oh well fix it up and fly again as they say.
CDP1802 wrote:
What do you fly with?
Too many flying toys to list here, I basically have one of everything. Also what if the wife is reading. :wtf:
Given my opinions about slavery marriage, I would really be surprised about any female objections. That's why I not only patched up the 450, but also built another one for the scale body I was working on. Five blade rotor heads are really hell to adjust. :-)
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
I don't like CommitStrip either but people post that "comic" here all the time. Dilbert is great, the rest I don't care for.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
The problem about Dilbert is that it often lags behind reality. I have known managers that make pointy hair look like a model of sanity and practical thinking.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
Given my opinions about slavery marriage, I would really be surprised about any female objections. That's why I not only patched up the 450, but also built another one for the scale body I was working on. Five blade rotor heads are really hell to adjust. :-)
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.CDP1802 wrote:
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
:thumbsup:
Jeremy Falcon
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CDP1802 wrote:
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
:thumbsup:
Jeremy Falcon
That's from something like 'If programming languages were cars' article which was among the news here a while ago. But I find it fitting. A golf cart is just as much a car as JavaScript is a programming language.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
That's from something like 'If programming languages were cars' article which was among the news here a while ago. But I find it fitting. A golf cart is just as much a car as JavaScript is a programming language.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.Ironically, I like JavaScript a lot. However, I tend to hear a lot of people act like it's the answer to cancer these days and it makes me laugh. Some of the people where are work are comparing to Assembly in terms of speed for instance because of libs like asm.js[^]. And yet, it's still a script. Not sure why people don't get that.
Jeremy Falcon
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Ironically, I like JavaScript a lot. However, I tend to hear a lot of people act like it's the answer to cancer these days and it makes me laugh. Some of the people where are work are comparing to Assembly in terms of speed for instance because of libs like asm.js[^]. And yet, it's still a script. Not sure why people don't get that.
Jeremy Falcon
I really don't like any functional languages, but that's just my personal preference. I think they are not easy to debug and at some point it always becomes hard to determine, wether or not this mess of code and data in a variable is correct or not. As an interpreter, it's not only slow, but also notices errors only at runtime. Since the parser can get out of step after a typo, you must not only test whatever you changed, but also everything that comes after it. I really prefer to have a compiler filter out this kind of stuff before anything runs. And a performance like assembly? Laughable. How can an interpreter which has to parse and interpret every line each time it is encountered ever hope to come close to the native machine code? Such nonsense can only be claimed by people who have never tried or understood what assembly or machine code are all about. Even in the old days some people never really understood the overhead involved with parsing, interpreting and then executing a single line of a higher level language.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
I really don't like any functional languages, but that's just my personal preference. I think they are not easy to debug and at some point it always becomes hard to determine, wether or not this mess of code and data in a variable is correct or not. As an interpreter, it's not only slow, but also notices errors only at runtime. Since the parser can get out of step after a typo, you must not only test whatever you changed, but also everything that comes after it. I really prefer to have a compiler filter out this kind of stuff before anything runs. And a performance like assembly? Laughable. How can an interpreter which has to parse and interpret every line each time it is encountered ever hope to come close to the native machine code? Such nonsense can only be claimed by people who have never tried or understood what assembly or machine code are all about. Even in the old days some people never really understood the overhead involved with parsing, interpreting and then executing a single line of a higher level language.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.CDP1802 wrote:
And a performance like assembly? Laughable. How can an interpreter which has to parse and interpret every line each time it is encountered ever hope to come close to the native machine code? Such nonsense can only be claimed by people who have never tried or understood what assembly or machine code are all about. Even in the old days some people never really understood the overhead involved with parsing, interpreting and then executing a single line of a higher level language.
It can't. That's why I laugh at such hyped-up claims. Script kiddies these days. :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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CDP1802 wrote:
And a performance like assembly? Laughable. How can an interpreter which has to parse and interpret every line each time it is encountered ever hope to come close to the native machine code? Such nonsense can only be claimed by people who have never tried or understood what assembly or machine code are all about. Even in the old days some people never really understood the overhead involved with parsing, interpreting and then executing a single line of a higher level language.
It can't. That's why I laugh at such hyped-up claims. Script kiddies these days. :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
During my studies, the professor started the first lecture about assembly programming with claiming that compilers 'nowadays' do a better job than the average assembly programmer. I made a comment about not comparing myself to the average and he thought that I was a bit arrogant. Later we had many interesting talks, after he heard that I had about 18 years experience of machine code and assembly programming at that time.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
The comic is a tribute to Rowdy Roddy Piper...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
Well, at least there's two of us who got it :rolleyes:.
Software Zen:
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Am I the only one who fails to understand what it means most of the time? I feel stupid every time I read it and can't figure it out, but I can't stop reading the damned thing either. The other site that explains it doesn't really help, since it no longer is funny once explained. A comic shouldn't require the reader to have a &#$&! PhD in nuclear physics to understand it. For instance, WTF is he on about in today's one? (or yesterday's, whichever it is). grumble grumble...
Guerrilla Coder wrote:
A comic shouldn't require the reader to have a &#$&! PhD in nuclear physics to understand it
Unless the comic's intended audience is nuclear physicists :) Today's is pretty funny (and I didn't study physics) :laugh: That said, I don't understand them either half of the time, which is why I usually don't read XKCD ;)
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Am I the only one who fails to understand what it means most of the time? I feel stupid every time I read it and can't figure it out, but I can't stop reading the damned thing either. The other site that explains it doesn't really help, since it no longer is funny once explained. A comic shouldn't require the reader to have a &#$&! PhD in nuclear physics to understand it. For instance, WTF is he on about in today's one? (or yesterday's, whichever it is). grumble grumble...
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Am I the only one who fails to understand what it means most of the time? I feel stupid every time I read it and can't figure it out, but I can't stop reading the damned thing either. The other site that explains it doesn't really help, since it no longer is funny once explained. A comic shouldn't require the reader to have a &#$&! PhD in nuclear physics to understand it. For instance, WTF is he on about in today's one? (or yesterday's, whichever it is). grumble grumble...
It's not always intended to be funny, per se. Sometimes the intent, at least what I get from it, is to make one stop and think, or appreciate something a little more. He also from time to time just pays tribute to someone or something that is important to him. Many are a visual, math or other pun, and can take some thought to "get", and while I'll freely admit I don't always get what he's trying to say, I still read it every day. :)
Currently reading: "The Prince", by Nicolo Machiavelli
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Am I the only one who fails to understand what it means most of the time? I feel stupid every time I read it and can't figure it out, but I can't stop reading the damned thing either. The other site that explains it doesn't really help, since it no longer is funny once explained. A comic shouldn't require the reader to have a &#$&! PhD in nuclear physics to understand it. For instance, WTF is he on about in today's one? (or yesterday's, whichever it is). grumble grumble...
Can you send the link to XKCD cartoon you mentioned? It's already tomorrow here (Sydney) and I don't think "today's" comic (http://xkcd.com/1561/) needs a PhD. Btw, and on topic, http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/ is well worth a read if you've never seen it. Bill has been analysing obscure comics online since 1997.
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Am I the only one who fails to understand what it means most of the time? I feel stupid every time I read it and can't figure it out, but I can't stop reading the damned thing either. The other site that explains it doesn't really help, since it no longer is funny once explained. A comic shouldn't require the reader to have a &#$&! PhD in nuclear physics to understand it. For instance, WTF is he on about in today's one? (or yesterday's, whichever it is). grumble grumble...
