Geek / Coder Signature Lines
Shamelessly pilfered from the web:
I am not personally responsible for any of these.
I do know everything, just not all at once. It's a virtual memory problem.
Code so clean you could eat off it
I'm having a problem here. Do I put the serial number in the box that says 'serial number,' or do I put it in the box that says 'company'? - Oh, those poor tech support people
Why geeks like computers: unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes,fsck,fsck,fsck,umount, sleep.
10 Sin
20 goto Hell
2 * 3 * 3 * 37 : The prime factorization of The Beast
665.9238429876 - Number of the Pentium Beast
A bad random number generator: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4.33e+67, 1, 1, 1...
A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. - Joseph Campbell
A computer scientist is someone who, when told to 'Go to Hell', sees the 'go to', rather than the destination, as harmful.
A core dump is your computer's way of saying "Here's what's on my mind, what's on yours?"
A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder
A hacker does for love what others would not do for money.
A nerd is someone whose life revolves around computers and technology. A geek is someone whose life revolves around computers and technology, and likes it!!
A program is a device used to convert data into error messages.
A)bort, R)etry, I)nfluence with large hammer.
ACK and you shall receive.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Programmers Hold Funerals for Old Code
Among the tiny graves on Blocker Hill, the wind echoes with the tortured cries of computer programmers. Beneath the eight grave markers, and perhaps in a rumored unmarked grave nearby, lie reams of paper printouts of code for software that has left this mortal operating system.
The cemetery is a quirky tradition among the programmers at LexisNexis, which provides online legal and business information. Rather than simply delete programs that are retired or replaced, they print them out for a proper send-off — not always with fond regards.
"The code wakes us up in the middle of the night," said Doug Perseghetti, who recalls the many times his fellow systems engineers and technical support workers are called in the middle of the night to fix system problems.
The name Blocker Hill was picked because the outdated equipment and code represented roadblocks to the company's future.
"Some things die gracefully and other things we've had to kill," Perseghetti said. He said workers had to "drive a stake" through the heart of a poorly performing program named CCI, which received an ignominious burial beneath an emblem of a pig.
In 1992, up to 50 mourners followed pallbearers carrying a wooden coffin with a printout of the former Database Update Control System as a trumpeter played "Taps," project consultant Alice Kaltenmark said. Eulogies were said and chocolate cake served. (AP)
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