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Since when?
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Where do you usually go?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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All the more for the rest of us!
Whip me, beat me, make me write VB...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Following your constraint requirement, I have nothing!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Not: if you consider the larval stage of Programmers, where they are only capable of being facetious, or the imago stage (as their newly inflated ego dries off) where they are only capable of being ironic.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Maybe not all, but sarcasm is a common feature not only of programmers but also of most engineers. I'd guess it's the end result of having to deal on a daily basis with unreasonable expectations, unrecognized efforts, and the unforgiving nature of the Universe.
Myself, I take solace in the fact that one day Skynet will come.
"Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa."
-- Verity Stob
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/05/cplusplus_cli/
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xperroni wrote: Myself, I take solace in the fact that one day Skynet will come.
So, you are looking forward to the day that robots will be trying to exterminate humans?
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KP Lee wrote: So, you are looking forward to the day that robots will be trying to exterminate humans?
No, not "trying", much like the Homo Sapiens wasn't "trying" to get rid of the Neanderthal.
"Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa."
-- Verity Stob
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/05/cplusplus_cli/
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I'm never sar-car-stick
veni bibi saltavi
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The only way a programmer can be non sarcastic is if his software has no users. If his software has no users, he is not a programmer.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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You do an elegant bit of coding that saves the day and then the team of non-programmers takes credit for it. Then they tell you that pointing that out is negative and we are not permitted to be negative. I say to you, “Sarcasm is a survival tool.”
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It's a defense mechanism for all the crap we have to put up with from non-programmers (e.g. managers)
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Those who read this quote are doomed to repeat it.
- me
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all programmers employ implicit sarcasting. Explicit sarcasting is employed only by those who don't care about information loss or those who have realized there is no spoon - only forks.
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Doesn't the spoon exist because you think it does?
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If you explicitly cast a sarcastic object, what can you cast it to? (Besides "object" of course.) That's a property of a human object not a derived object of one.
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No, not all. I worked for about 20 years with a large group of
programmers, and one year this one guy was at times pleasant.
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You mean when someone is sarcastic they aren't pleasant? I could have sworn I've seen people grinning while I'm in full sarcastic mode. Of course I wasn't talking at them at the time. Being sarcastic and conversational seem to be mutually exclusive for me.
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What is this sarcasm you speak of, it's completely new to me 
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Matt McGuire wrote: What is this sarcasm you speak of...
demonstrating one of the skills programmers have.
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I don't know, but I'm more interested in whether all programmers are pedantic?
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That's off topic - start a new thread
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Sorry, was intended to be a joke, didn't realise that would be off topic.
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I just thought that I would be pedantic - also as a joke, but now that I know what pedantic really means I can see how putting a joke icon on my reply wasn't really pedantic enough. Thanks for getting back to me. I will use your feedback to better myself. 
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Yortw wrote: I'm more interested in whether all programmers are pedantic?
Don't you need to be pedantic to have the patience to learn to program? Pedantic people exhibit huge patience to be with themselves and I think that might be transferred into programming skills.
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