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Entries Tagged as 'Humor'

KDE4, as seen on Slashdot

Posted in All, Technology on February 1st, 2009 · Comments Off

Slashdot essense

KDE 4 released.  That’s how I started reading the discussion thread on Slashdot

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Programming religions

Posted in All, Programming on January 4th, 2009 · Comments Off

I’m slowly catching up with the news stream and all the jokes of the last few weeks.  “If programming languages were religions” is a nice one.  Here is PHP, which I spent the most time with now:

PHP would be Cafeteria Christianity - Fights with Java for the web market. It draws a few concepts from C and Java, but only those that it really likes. Maybe it’s not as coherent as other languages, but at least it leaves you with much more freedom and ostensibly keeps the core idea of the whole thing. Also, the whole concept of “goto hell” was abandoned.

And here is Perl, which is my favourite programming language so far:

Perl would be Voodoo - An incomprehensible series of arcane incantations that involve the blood of goats and permanently corrupt your soul. Often used when your boss requires you to do an urgent task at 21:00 on friday night.

Check the rest of them for fun and profit.

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On managing stress

Posted in All on January 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off

Here is a nice advice on managing stress from the authors of Moderately Confused

Stress

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On healthy lifestyle

Posted in All on November 7th, 2008 · Comments Off

Reading Linus Torvalds’ blog I came across this paragraph:

Not that I actually ever really minded wearing glasses, but I could not recognize my own kids when in a swimming pool and they were more than six feet away. And let’s face it. swimming after other peoples kids and tickling them is not socially acceptable. At least in the US.

Laughing…

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Passwords are like women

Posted in All, Sysadmin, Technology on November 1st, 2008 · 5 Comments

I don’t know if this was posted by someone else somewhere else before (probably it was), but that’s what I came up with yesterday, while explaining our password policy to one of the (male) colleagues.

Passwords are like women:

  • you should have as many of them as you can
  • you should change them as often as you can
  • you should never share them with another man

Judging by reaction, I got the point across.

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