Cranky Bit » Funny http://blog.crankybit.com Take a byte out of tech! Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:23:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Date Last Modificatied http://blog.crankybit.com/date-last-modificatied/ http://blog.crankybit.com/date-last-modificatied/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:43:02 +0000 Josh http://blog.crankybit.com/date-last-modificatied/ I was going through some code, cleaning up an old app that I’ve now put in Subversion. Before I used source control, I would hardcode the last modified date in a comment in the code. Any file I touch now, I always delete that info since the repository tracks it all for me.

Anyway, I was going through a particular line, and found this comical typo:

Date last modificatied: 5/15/2002.

Lol, I must have been coding in my sleep there. :-D

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You know, by the end of the video, the comparison to a book is so simplistic, I really was wondering just what it is that makes it so difficult to understand how a computer can store our information..

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Even though I think it is pretty blatant, for those of you who do not realize: David is using a common linguistic tool known as sarcasm.

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Well, here’s a great one about a pet peeve of mine: What code DOESN’T do in real life (that it does in the movies). Movies almost always portray email clients, the web, app source code, and other computer elements very differently from the way they really look. I know it’s an effort to make these things look more interesting, but seriously, some of the stuff they’ve come up with is pretty wild.

This article points out some of the stupid cinematic effects Hollywood sometimes applies to code. Warning: The author’s language is needlessly inappropriate at times. But if you can get past that, it’s a great laugh. :-)

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Apple is taking steps to correct the matter, and apparently it is an extremely small percentage (less than 1%) of affected iPods.

In the Information Week article “Apple Says Shipped iPods Carrying Computer Virus“, statements from both Apple and Microsoft are quoted. Allow me to translate and paraphrase.

Apple: “We’re sorry for shipping our iPod with a Windows virus. Gee, it’s too bad Windows is so bad with viruses.”

Microsoft: “Yeah, but you’re stupid for letting the virus get on your product, even if, erm, it doesn’t affect your own OS. Just watch it in the future, will ya?”

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All is well now. Heh. Heaven forbid I have a moment of pride without a humbling moment immediately thereafter.

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See it over at xkcd: sandwich!

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Read about it at: The Dog Ate My Euros. Yes, that’s really the news story headline.

This is just too funny. I don’t know which part is more funny: That the dog ate almost $500 worth of euros, or that the owner of the dog will actually be able to get the money back! This is a great story.

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Who are the intruders? Visiting friends? Neighborhood kids? No, they are the local bears! And apparently they can’t hold their alcohol as well as one might think!

Read it at: Bear Passes Out After Only 36 Beers.

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