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Alright...

Java is write once, run anywhere. Perl is write once, turn and run.

OO is like real life: you inherit properties, you cheat a little, then you get divorced, and you're left with an old, broken model

Bash is named after the monkey who successfully typed out Hamlet.

Korn shell was named after the band, and even though America won the cold war, UTF-8 was a notable casualty, so we couldn't use the backward R

The whole class was confused after Jimmy sang 10 little endians and stopped at the second one.

Thank you, I'll be here all week.



I realized this morning that Jimmy should have stopped at the first little endian.


Nah. he should stop after the tenth (second). iterate over (0,1) , but sing (1,10) or i+1. excellent jokes.

EDIT: Oh crap. Was that a joke about stopping on the first endian? If so, I just committed a classic geek fail...


I was referring to "little endianness", where the least significant bit is on the left, which makes 10 = 1, whereas in big endian it would be 2 :)


Not quite right. In a little endian system, the least significant byte is the leftmost one (ie, lowest address). The order of bits within a byte is the same regardless of endianness.

So 10 is always 2.


Ah, well I stand corrected, Mr. Hamming :)


>Thank you, I'll be here all week.

Was this supposed to be a joke too? :)




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