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Humor Programming

Me, with my calls to print() vs. you, with your fancy debugger

print() (or printf()) works for these pros…

…and it works pretty nicely for me, too.

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Humor Process Programming

The third kind of “free”

Photo: Old mattress on the side of the road, waiting for pickup
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If you’re into open source, you’re probably aware of the different kinds of free, thanks to the expressions “Free as in beer” and “Free as in speech”. 

If you’ve dealt with some particular open source codebases, you’ve probably also internalized a third kind of free: Free as in mattress.

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How you deploy a container on Kubernetes

Photo: Tour guide pointing at insanely complex panel in insanely complex control room: “And this is how you deploy a container on Kubernetes”
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It’s funny because it’s true.

[ Thanks to Guy Barrette for the find! ]

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Hardware Humor

Two printer posts; one printer truth

I saw these two posts about printers this morning — one on Twitter, the other on Facebook, in a neighborhood forum where someone was asking for office equipment and furniture that people were no longer using:

I find that I use our home printer about once a year, typically for printing a letter that I need to enclose with a paper form that I’m sending via snail mail.

How often do you use your printer at home (if you have one) these days?

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Humor

Programmer joke of the day

Don’t forget that there’s a really, really, really good deal on Python books for the next few days!

Thanks to Ryan Rossman for the find!

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Humor

Is work not challenging enough? Maybe you need a “Vertical QWERTY” keyboard!

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Take the U.S. “QWERTY” keyboard layout, turn it on side and you get this monstrosity.

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This keyboard is the creation of one “Foone Turing” (@Foone on Twitter), who swapped the key covers on a keyboard and used Microsoft’s Keyboard Layout Creator utility to define the new layout for Windows.

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Mac users who want to self-flagellate with Vertical QWERTY can use Ukulele to define the new keyboard layout.

Foone took the keyboard on a test run with a classic game: Police Quest 2 by good ol’ Sierra On-Line

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Humor Programming

Why just increment when you can increment ANIME STYLE?

Unfortunately, you can do neither in Swift. The ++ operator has been gone since Swift 3, and the closest Swift will let you get to the cool anime way of incrementing is i -= -1. There has to be a space between the -= and -1; otherwise you get hit with this error message: Use of unresolved operator ‘-=-‘