<Q> What are some things that programmers and computer scientists know, but most people don't?
<A> Try telling this to a normal person:
"A parent may kill its children if the task assigned to them is no longer needed"

// Work out the exe app path
// THANK YOU VERY MUCH WIN32
// WHATEVER WAS WRONG WITH ARGV[0] YOU FUCKING IDIOTS
Źródło: Uplink source

Pewien profesor kazał sobie wszyć w spodnie zamiast zamka błyskawicznego suwak logarytmiczny - aby łatwiej mu było wyciągać pierwiastek.

Writing code is like having sex.... make one little mistake, and you're supporting it for life.

[16:02] <Ahmadi> Is there any trick to add "__declspec(dllexport)" to all of function of a namespace?
[16:03] <ville> Ahmadi: interns

Without going into too much detail, JavaScript is like the ugly, buck-toothed girl your parents forced you to take to the prom. JQuery is like the fairy godmother who swoops in and, with one sweep of the wand, turns her into a total babe before your eyes.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/602444/what-is-functional-declarative-and-imperative-programming/602707#602707

Kryptoanalityk - specjalista w dziedzinie badań grobowców

Dlaczego monomorfizmy nie mogą mieć dzieci?
Bo mają trywialne jądro.

You know 3rd party web service you are integrating with is bad, when it can return error: PRESS ANY KEY TO EXIT

Share it iff you love formal logic.

na podstawie www.xkcd.com/1033

// At this point, I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format.
// PSD is not a good format. PSD is not even a bad format. Calling it such would be an
// insult to other bad formats, such as PCX or JPEG. No, PSD is an abysmal format. Having
// worked on this code for several weeks now, my hate for PSD has grown to a raging fire
// that burns with the fierce passion of a million suns.
// If there are two different ways of doing something, PSD will do both, in different
// places. It will then make up three more ways no sane human would think of, and do those
// too. PSD makes inconsistency an art form. Why, for instance, did it suddenly decide
// that *these* particular chunks should be aligned to four bytes, and that this alignement
// should *not* be included in the size? Other chunks in other places are either unaligned,
// or aligned with the alignment included in the size. Here, though, it is not included.
// Either one of these three behaviours would be fine. A sane format would pick one. PSD,
// of course, uses all three, and more.
// Trying to get data out of a PSD file is like trying to find something in the attic of
// your eccentric old uncle who died in a freak freshwater shark attack on his 58th
// birthday. That last detail may not be important for the purposes of the simile, but
// at this point I am spending a lot of time imagining amusing fates for the people
// responsible for this Rube Goldberg of a file format.
// Earlier, I tried to get a hold of the latest specs for the PSD file format. To do this,
// I had to apply to them for permission to apply to them to have them consider sending
// me this sacred tome. This would have involved faxing them a copy of some document or
// other, probably signed in blood. I can only imagine that they make this process so
// difficult because they are intensely ashamed of having created this abomination. I
// was naturally not gullible enough to go through with this procedure, but if I had done
// so, I would have printed out every single page of the spec, and set them all on fire.
// Were it within my power, I would gather every single copy of those specs, and launch
// them on a spaceship directly into the sun.
//
// PSD is not my favourite file format.

https://code.google.com/p/xee/source/browse/XeePhotoshopLoader.m#108

Told by Gerald Weinberg in various incarnations:

A group of ten top software engineers is sent to a class for aspiring managers. The teacher walks in and asks this question:

"You work for a software company which develops avionics (software that controls the instruments of an airplane). One day you are taking a business trip. As you get on the plane you see a plaque that says this plane is using a beta of the software your team developed. Who would get off?"

Nine developers raised their hands. The teacher looked at the tenth and asked, "Why would you stay on?"

The tenth said, "if my team wrote the software, the plane would not get off the ground, much less crash."

The fantastic element that explains the appeal of video games to many developers is neither the fire-breathing monsters nor the milky-skinned, semi-clad sirens; it is the experience of carrying out a task from start to finish without any change in the user requirements.

Macierze mają niedługo ogłosić niepodległość.

Rząd już mają.

<Shammoz > Well, I don't actually have an OCD, it's a CDO, spelt alphabetically, just as it damn well should be.