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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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I've always understood pedantic as a combination of the word 'pedant' (teacher) and a very detail oriented person.. so being pedantic is being focused on always teaching someone something.. a 'pedantic essay' spends a lot of time making sure the reader knows what the author is talking about, rather than assuming some expertise on the part of the reader and getting on with the point of the article/book.
Given this definition, I don't think of programmers as mostly pedantic.. I actually see them hating to explain things to those that don't 'get it'. I've met a few that are.. but most I fear are not that way...
And.. entertainingly.. this response is pedantic! =)
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He says.. waving the metaphorical red cape in front of the angry bull..
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That's "... the metaphorical angry bull" 
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Indeed.. I stand corrected! =)
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Ahhh. A human wrote this! (To Err is human)
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All humans are taught how to use sarcasm. Some humans manage to withhold being sarcastic. Last I heard, all programmers who count (effectively write new code) are human. Therefore I would say that "All programmers are sarcastic" is a false statement. Only 99.999% of them are sarcastic. (That includes me, but I think in this post I'm just sardonic. Didn't revisit that last word in a dictionary so I hope its usage is correct.)
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50% of all =)
-How you writing your code?
-with my keyboard 
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Not normal programmers, just the extroverts ....ooops, and those who learned that sarcasm is the best way to get people to leave them alone so they can build what those inconsiderate users, with all of their useless requirements and suggestions, really need.
cat fud heer
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