Tag Archives: xkcd

Manuals

Written by Modar HIJAZI 12:49 pm on 18 March, 2014 — Leave a Comment

The most ridiculous offender of all is the sudoers man page, which for 15 years has started with a 'quick guide' to EBNF, a system for defining the grammar of a language. 'Don't despair', it says, 'the definitions below are annotated.'

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What happen when you assume

Written by Modar HIJAZI 10:03 am on 7 March, 2014 — Leave a Comment

You know what happens when you assert--you make an ass out of the emergency response team.

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Critical updates

Written by Modar HIJAZI 5:15 pm on 10 February, 2014 — Leave a Comment

I have a bunch of things open right now.

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Make computer scientists listen to boring stories

Written by Modar HIJAZI 2:26 pm on 29 January, 2014 — Leave a Comment

Changing the names would be easier, but if you're not comfortable lying, try only making friends with people named Alice, Bob, Carol, etc.

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Side effects

Written by Modar HIJAZI 10:28 am on 3 January, 2014 — Leave a Comment

The problem with Haskell is that it's a language built on lazy evaluation and nobody's actually called for it.

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