What's your favorite "programmer" cartoon?

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Personally I like this one:

P.S. Do not hotlink the cartoon without the site's permission please.

Ibnrushd answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Another one from xkcd Exploits of a Mom

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Transcript answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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I like this one: http://xkcd.com/149/

(Proper User Policy apparently means Simon Says.)

Legato answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Vrablik answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute

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I wrote a production website that has the path /dev/random/ return 4 because of this comic.

$int get_rand_number(){ return 4;}$

Osbert answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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XKCD Comic 303 - "Compiling"

('Are you stealing those LCDs?' 'Yeah, but I'm doing it while my code compiles')

I have this one pinned to the wall facing the entrance to our office :)

Rosas answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Ligule answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(1)

Randall Munroe, the creator of xkcd, discusses how he actually tested this theory during a talk at Google: youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24 -- start at 8:26 or so. The talk is also exciting because Donald Knuth asks the first question! – Crapulous 23/9, 2008 at 1:7

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Xerophilous answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Oh! There can be only one:

It's sooo funny, because it's true :)

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Lopes answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Religious debates are always fun!

Hylotheism answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Photobathic answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Of course, xkcd!

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Winebaum answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Touchwood answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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I knew it was true. XKCD #224

We lost the documentation on quantum mechanics. You'll have to decode the regexes yourself.

"We lost the documentation on quantum mechanics. You'll have to decode the regexes yourself."

Lopes answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Baseline Expectations

Taken from Dilbert.com, Sept 12 2008

Chicago answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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I can't believe someone hasn't put this one:

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Tirpitz answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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XKCD hits the button every time.

Bedroll answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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(I hear this is an option in the latest Ubuntu release.)

Calathus answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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I didn't know...

Lumisterol answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(1)

Apparently, you haven't visited Youtube recently: blag.xkcd.com/2008/10/08/youtube-audio-preview – Rotunda 24/10, 2008 at 7:21

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On victory:

Alinaaline answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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xkcd:

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"When I started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy 'icons' and 'Windows.' All we had were zeros and ones -- and sometimes we didn't even have ones. I wrote an entire database program using only zeros." "You had zeros? We had to use the letter 'O'." -Dilbert (Scott Adams) http://www.mscha.net/tmp/dt19920908.gif

Powerful answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Dilbert is the top favorite, but I've also really enjoyed the xkcd comics the last couple years. I've got a couple of those posted up in my cube... I try really hard to live by this one.

Mcdavid answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Terms and Conditions cartoon from brainstuck.com

https://brainstuck.com/2008/08/08/t-c/

I'm guessing that this would probably never happen, as agreeing to the terms and conditions is more important than actually reading them (from the software publisher perspective).

Crawler answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Hymnist answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(1)

Here's a good explanation of how to do this sort of problem: sites.google.com/site/resistorgrid/grid – Biles 29/3, 2010 at 2:32

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One of my favourite :)

If androids someday DO dream of electric sheep, don't forget to declare sheepCount as a long int.

Bremsstrahlung answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Doctor Fun... http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jpg

Mortimer answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Can't and shouldn't

If all bugs were so easy to close.

Ventriloquism answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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http://xkcd.com/518/

Hescock answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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One more which I liked: No offences.. :)

how it works

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Roundly answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(1)

I shared this one with the guys at my old job, explaining that this is how it feels sometimes. I got some blank looks, and one confused "So all girls are awesome at programming?" – Ethyl 5/12, 2008 at 12:10

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Without a doubt...

State machines

Forbidding answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(7)

@Anheledir: you can't parse arbitrary nested parentheses with classic regexps. – Nicholas 17/9, 2008 at 16:37

Particularly when numbers of opening and closing parentheses don't match :-) – Tapping 18/9, 2008 at 8:14

If I hadn't done some compiler engineering and also some Scheme as part of my degree I'd never get this... however, I personally think it's obscurity is part of what makes it so funny! – Forbidding 19/9, 2008 at 14:40

Well, if you restrict the depth of the expressions to something reasonably large, the automaton can handle it. I remember Martin Kay telling us in one class that he spent half a year of his life on converting CFGs into limited-depth FSAs. – Differentia 20/9, 2008 at 21:32

But you can never handle arbitrary expressions of that type with a FSA as you essentially have to construct a different FSA for each and every possible case of the problem. On a seperate note, does anyone know WHERE this comes from? Found on a random-image thread, but I never knoew the source. – Forbidding 23/9, 2008 at 10:38

xan: You can always construct a bigger FSA, but the point is whether or not ONE given FSA can handle ALL expressions of this kind, no matter how long. – Fechner 14/3, 2009 at 8:37

Where does this come from? I only find links to blogspam and image hosting sites for it on Google. – Trahan 8/11, 2009 at 15:52

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As a project wears on, standards for success slip lower and lower

("40% of OpenBSD installs lead to shark attacks. It's their only standing security issue.")

Alphaalphabet answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Freeholder answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(1)

osascript -e "set volume 10" – Adjacency 11/6, 2009 at 15:7

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Fax me some electricity, please?

Dilbert Fax

Autotrophic answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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alt text http://www.netfxharmonics.com/Images/WindowsLiveWriter/ComicStrip2.NETandPHPSourceCode_14857/DotNetPhpCartoon02.png

Splanchnic answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(10)

BTW, I us PHP too! =P and didn't mean this as a putdown in anyway. Just found it amusing as a fanboy style comic. It could apply to any languages in either role. – Splanchnic 18/9, 2008 at 16:54

Seeing as (afair) Stack Overflow was actually built with .NET, I have decided to retroactively start respecting people who use it – Tench 27/1, 2009 at 7:44

Wow even comics about .NET suck. – Seaden 20/2, 2009 at 18:10

I rolled my own DAL and 'architectural solution for repurposing business logic to a desktop environment'. But when I get irritated by the irredemable failure of compile-time type checking (or anything else), jackass PHP fanboys tell me it's because there's something wrong with me, not PHP. – Grus 22/2, 2009 at 11:34

not funny, and anyone suggesting running sites on IIS for performance reasons, on servers that have an entire GUI OS installed on them, well, no comment – Shush 22/2, 2009 at 11:53

apphacker: if i dont remember right windows server2008 can be installed in a mode where it only has a console? – Monogenetic 26/3, 2009 at 19:48

@Petoj Windows 2008 does have such an option. Another thing to consider is that stackoverflow.com is running on pure MS technologies, Windows/IIS7/MSSQL/.NET and for the number of requests it receives I would say it performs decent. – Splanchnic 26/3, 2009 at 20:8

Yeah, this comic is pretty moronic. Take away the specific technology (in this case, .NET) and it's like a third-rate slashdot comment from 1999. "Hur hur our technology is better." But the worst part is the fact that the technological jargon they spout isn't even impressive. Moving code between web apps and desktops? Separating database code and logic (which is what a DAL is)? who cares? And it's not like VB is a paragon of type saftey. – Dissuasive 9/5, 2009 at 9:25

If anything, this is a point for PHP: Absence of marketing B.S. – Maidenhair 3/4, 2010 at 17:35

I'm a .NET dev and am embarassed by this. – Euphony 20/9, 2010 at 12:44

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Quite demonstrative of why metric based incentives and engineers don't go hand in hand.

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Hypochondrium answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Minter answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(5)

If someone's personal webpage uses ASP.NET, I give them -20. – Dissatisfied 29/10, 2009 at 18:33

It's nice to see that most ignorance is outside of the Microsoft camp. – Coprophagous 16/6, 2010 at 19:3

@Deniz: Nothing to be proud of – Adversative 25/8, 2010 at 10:4

Why the hate for ASP.NET? Let me guess... PHP? – Pacify 27/9, 2010 at 10:44

Rails, PHP or ASP.net. Surely Django! – Scutiform 17/11, 2010 at 13:46

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(http://thedailywtf.com)

Profitsharing answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(2)

Their main problem is that the screenshot is a JPEG – Instinctive 23/5, 2010 at 3:51

Even better--they created a transparent GIF, then turned it into a JPEG, then saved it again as a PNG--you get the best all 3 formats! – Haines 24/8, 2010 at 15:4

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John Martz has a blog entry to go with this. IE6 denial message

Sweetheart answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(3)

Presumably the comic was made when only those browser existed. Google Chrome and IE 8 were created sometime after 2008 and the other browsers existed before 2008. IE 7 existed in 2005... – Pharmacognosy 23/5, 2010 at 23:31

IE7 is just as bad as IE6, if not worse. – Epicycle 20/7, 2010 at 11:32

How is IE7 worse than IE6? – Haines 24/8, 2010 at 15:11

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While not specifically about programming per se....wanting to program games is what got me interested in IT in the first place....

anyway this one made me laugh so hard when I saw it!

Tirpitz answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(4)

i'd have better luck at this version. i recently tried quakelive.com – Levinson 12/7, 2009 at 22:29

on quakelive: incompatible browser (chrome) – Palingenesis 6/12, 2009 at 18:49

Alt text: I'm sure a discussion of the reason for the disappearance of adventure games in favor of RPGs would be fascinating – Tacita 13/2, 2010 at 18:45

Mezoid, that's what got us all into IT. If someone told every kid they're gonna pass the rest of their lives coding boring business software, there wouldn't be a single programmer on earth. – Omphale 13/12, 2010 at 15:24

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Here's a new one from Dinosaur Comics:

ladies and gentlemen: mr. stack overflow! http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-82.png

Unguiculate answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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This has made my year.

Some engineer out there has solved P=NP and it's locked up in an electric eggbeater calibration routine. For every 0x5f375a86 we learn about, there are thousands we never see.

Some engineer out there has solved P=NP and it's locked up in an electric eggbeater calibration routine. For every 0x5f375a86 we learn about, there are thousands we never see.

Thorne answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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alt text http://globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/dilbert-xp02.gif

Winifredwinikka answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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http://www.ok-cancel.com/strips/okcancel20031010.gif

Kinin answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Bit old but still one of my favs:

http://www.ok-cancel.com/strips/okcancel20031003.gif

Decentralization answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(5)

Particularly relevant as I saw a Microsoft Surface table today – Stormproof 19/9, 2008 at 22:49

@Frank: Not to mention movies, like James Bond: Quantum of Solace. – Marisolmarissa 5/3, 2009 at 3:38

"Welcome to LCARS menu system" Um, except LCARS actually came out OK on Nokia's internet tablets – Unparliamentary 15/3, 2009 at 21:16

Touchscreens are perfectly useful. The millions of them in use in portable gaming consoles, phones, tablet PCs, digitizing tablets, and hundreds of other applications attest to this. This comic only illustrates why touchscreens are impractical as an input device for desktop systems. – Haines 24/8, 2010 at 15:15

This cartoon is not about touchescreens. It's about touche_less_screens. Check out TED talk - ted.com/talks/… – Decentralization 24/8, 2010 at 23:19

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Another great Foxtrot comic. Possibly the most incomprehensible-to-non-geeks comic to sneak into the newspaper funnies.

Cara answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(5)

I like the for loop: for (int i=1;i<=numBrainCells;i++) { turnOn(brain[i]) system.out.println("Yawn"); } – Droppings 11/8, 2009 at 15:11

What is it with Foxtrot and starting iteration at 1 instead of 0? – Compote 11/11, 2009 at 4:8

I'd like to know why the functions getCurrTime and isitaWorkday both either return void or their return value is never used.... – Tirpitz 6/12, 2009 at 22:1

personally, I'd use brain[i].enable(); or brain[i].activate(); over turnOn(brain[i]); – Neuroglia 19/2, 2010 at 1:31

@Sorin Comanescu actually brain has to have been initialized and is pointing to null. First brain must be initialized. Also, numBrainCells has to be declared! – Pharmacognosy 23/5, 2010 at 23:34

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This is my everyday.

Halfwitted answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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I love this one:

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(it's how people feel )

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Circumvent answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(2)

Being a C# developer, I fail to see the joke. Not because I want to defend C#, but because I don't get it? What has Ruby and Lisp coders against C#? – Ben 29/5, 2010 at 18:44

@Ben it's simply this: Ruby is currently the "coolest" language at the moment. Lisp, as you know, is the revered language. The cartoon implicitly implies both Ruby and Lisp are cool. C# on the other hand is a "mainstream language", so, it's not "cool." I also think the cartoon is implying both Lisp and Ruby programmers are fanatics? – Phototypography 22/11, 2010 at 22:55

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Old black and white version (there's nothing new under the sun) http://www.lore.ua.ac.be/Teaching/SE3BAC/SoftwareSpecCartoon.gif

Aerobe answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(4)

It's pretty similar to this one stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/… I'm not sure which one came first – Tacita 13/2, 2010 at 19:0

@Doppelganger: This one: Mar 4 '09 at 22:40; the other one: Sep 17 '08 at 15:39. You do the math. – Haigh 8/7, 2010 at 20:49

@Andreas, these pictures are decades old. businessballs.com/treeswing.htm – Aerobe 17/8, 2010 at 18:33

This is good too: businessballs.com/businessballs_treeswing_pictures.htm – Aerobe 17/8, 2010 at 18:37

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Mylan answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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The very first bug bash is great!

http://www.bugbash.net/strips/bug-bash20050521.gif

Hadik answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Hypochondrium answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Sarad answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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The 1337 set of comics from xkcd, starting with: The main thing I love is the thought of Stallman engaging RIAA agents in sword fights towards the end :)

Ulcer answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Signs your coders don't have enough work to do

Racquelracquet answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Real Programmers Code in Binary http://zeljkofilipin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/real-programmers-code-in-binary.jpg

According to http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~cjbs17/computing/binary.html author of this image is Chris Kania and original is at http://www.kaniamania.com/html/1190.html but the entire site is down at the moment.

Powerful answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(2)

This is nothing to make jokes about. This is actually how I wrote AlgoSim: www.algosim.se – Haigh 8/7, 2010 at 20:55

The Enter is unnecessary. \r is 00001101. – Cleisthenes 28/8, 2010 at 8:20

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alt text http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd011406s.gif

Hypochondrium answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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I've got a war to fight! .

Brashy answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Check this From Apple Desicion on APP. alt text

Judie answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(3)

do they use CSS to hide all the bottom on their site? clever! – Socratic 10/11, 2008 at 4:17

@alex, no they simply publish a 1151real.jpg without all the bottom; your way is good too though. geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/1151real.jpg – Homeopathy 11/6, 2009 at 2:22

It took me a while (and had to read the edits) to wonder what I was talking about above! – Socratic 23/12, 2009 at 4:6

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Can't help but love it...

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Canzona answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(1)

According to google (Pi) - (9^2 + (19^2)/22)^(1/4) = 1.00714725 × 10^(-9 ) – Ravelment 27/6, 2010 at 10:12

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Hulk MMO Cartoon

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Radu answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Made for grad students, but applies equally to programmers

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PHD Comics - Brain on a Stick

Winebaum answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Bondsman answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Programmer life

Cyrilcyrill answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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"Emacs Thumb" from User Friendly

Emacs Thumb http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/07sep/uf010710.gif

Hymnist answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Antepast answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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I'm surprised this one was missing:

Carthage answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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The doomed project

a nice collection

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C++ forest

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My all time favorite is probably xkcd's "Sudo make me a sandwich" comic, but there are SO MANY good webcomics out there that I thought I'd throw some others out for fun:

A co-worker pointed me to Sticks and Stones, which just got started pretty recently. It's sort of an xkcd ripoff, but there's some good stuff in there. alt text http://www.arcanology.net/sticksandstones/comics/comic-10.gif

Hackles is frequently about programming. This one's probably my favorite: Hackles, by Drake Emko & Jen Brodzik http://hackles.org/strips/cartoon334.png It's not quite a programming comic, but I also really dug this strip from Full Frontal Nerdery:

Full Frontal Nerdity by Aaron Williams http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/strips/2008-03-12.jpg

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http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-172.png

(sequel to this)

Pompadour answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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I didn't see this one which is one of my favorite xkcd :

Donald Knuth

(His books were kinda intimidating; rappelling down through his skylight seemed like the best option.)

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I can't believe 6 pages of answers and no one mentions the banana jr 6000. How quickly we forget.

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3108/bananaadgz4.gif

The other one I love and couldn't find the image for has the punchline "Failure Mr. Jones, is hardly original. Now sit down."

Also from the Bloom County strip.

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ONE LAPTOP PER HAMSTER!

makes me lol

link

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http://ihooky.com/comics/ihooky06.png

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Hello my favorit is this one

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Fosterling answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Steve answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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I'm going to show my age with the this 1993 classic: On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

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What?! No PhDComics? Check this out: alt text http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd1112.gif

Remember this was 1997!!

Also read the following strips... Hilarious!

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Tallula answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(1)

Whoa, this looks exactly like Order Of The Stick. giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html – Stephanystephen 4/2, 2009 at 6:58

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not directly something about programming, but i guess every programmer knows flowcharts xD

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http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/75.html http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/comics/irreg0075.jpg

Edited for grammar :P

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Damalis answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Lately I started reading Geek Hero Comic. My favorite parts so far:

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Meghanmeghann answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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(guess you have to work on sev zero bugs to get this one)

Antepast answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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This is old, I'm totally not sure about the permissions and I'm ready to remove it.alt text http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/8456/easycfm4.jpg

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Dilbert http://www.laputan.org/images/pictures/elbonia-900406.gif

This is something I found reading about anti-patterns.

Cyrilcyrill answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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I think the IT consultant's image is the best:

Reasons why people who work with computers have a lot of spare time

(linking because the picture's pretty big)

Racquelracquet answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Ten reasons you know you're living in 2009

You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
You're reading this and nodding and laughing. :)

Damalis answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(4)

Wrong thread; try the programmer jokes one. (And none of these are programming-related anyway.) – Thesaurus 29/4, 2009 at 21:37

So true.. almost all of it! It's actually sad to realize this!! – Schizo 1/12, 2009 at 13:42

When a hack am I living? I do not laugh :( – Divertimento 21/2, 2010 at 10:25

-1. First, not a cartoon. Second, it's not about programming. Third, it's been swirling around the interwebs since before 2004. – Back 16/10, 2010 at 22:53

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Just had to put this here

http://www.implementingscrum.com/images/070806-scrumtoon.jpg

From here

Deyoung answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Cacie answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(2)

from reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9rvkn/… – Cacie 8/10, 2009 at 13:46

add esp , 8;don't forget anything – Tartuffe 16/2, 2010 at 19:20

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SPOILER ALERT!!!

Cutting Edge

Wieland answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(1)

its too much of a stretch to think programmers play computer games – Visser 5/3, 2010 at 23:39

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For an Agile shop ... THIS is fantastic... As a dev, it just speaks volumes.

Great Fun: from Implementing Scrum by Clark & vizdos.

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Forethought answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(1)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28development%29 in the end, the comic made itself be programmer related :P – Flagellate 22/11, 2010 at 12:44

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You vs Technology http://www.weblogcartoons.com/cartoons/you-v-tech.gif

Lengel answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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It is hideous but I can't look away. THE KRAMER http://www.geekherocomic.com/comics/2009-08-19-a-coding-paradox.png

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alt text http://www.geekherocomic.com/comics/2009-08-03-hardcoded-limits.png

Was I can do stackoverflow in a weekend the inspiration for this cartoon?

Ventriloquism answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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From Bug Bash:

alt text http://www.bugbash.net/strips/bug-bash20070723.gif

Croy answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(1)

I don't get it. Is the punchline that she has a moustache? – Gown 20/7, 2010 at 12:15

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There's a Russian version of Bash.org at Bash.org.ru. What they do now is they take favorite quotes and turn them into cartoons or comic strips. Here's one of my favorite ones: Tester http://s.bash.org.ru/img/67c5y2emi7vwmrnd263759.jpg

We've got a clever tester now -What do you mean?
He's found bunch of stuff... A funny symbol there, a weird key combination here. He's real good
But sometimes... I really want to smash his face

Link to site: http://bash.org.ru/comics/20080111

Hagi answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(3)

thats...not really funny. In Russian OR English. – Baudin 3/2, 2009 at 23:4

Neither is Doonesbury. Actually this is funnier than Doonesbury. Actually sticking a freshly sharpened pencil under your eyelid and blinking fiercely is better than Doonesbury. – Brucite 20/4, 2009 at 7:2

In soviet Russia jokes laugh at you. – Omphale 13/12, 2010 at 15:29

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HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
    UP VAR!!1
    VISIBLE VAR
    IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBAI

Taken from :http://lolcode.com/ KTHXBAI!!

Legitimize answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(1)

+1 no cartoon but funnier than all of the posted geekherocomics – Burse 2/11, 2010 at 9:20

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http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-1512.png

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alt text http://images.orkut.com/orkut/albums2/ATgAAAB3idBHMFYig7ck6I4oqJ8HtkBHuqkha0UeOIkUaSj8LqiwUPIFIkQVJp2eMtTyQOpxLY3R6XSqqo6vsgv-wURQAJtU9VCzBj_EgcyVWltZNcREVSR-daV-1w.jpg

Polyphone answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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Tragically, my favorite cartoon is too old to be on the interwebs.

It's from Datamation. (Remember Datamation?) A man is sitting at a desk. There are bits of electronics everywhere. Rubble is strewn into every corner of the room. His face and hair are singed.

He is thinking "It's never done that before."

Eger answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(1)

Had that up in my cubicle for years; wish I could find a copy of it – Lexicography 6/2, 2009 at 20:30

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Static

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This is my personal favorite... and the name of all my alpha releases! alt text http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd071009s.gif

original link

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"Helping" out fellow programming co-workers

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The Contiki Strip

A comic set in a small Norwegian software company. All text in English. Check it out at http://contikistrip.kjempekjekt.com

Contiki Strip http://contikistrip.kjempekjekt.com/images/contikistrip5.png Contiki Strip http://contikistrip.kjempekjekt.com/images/contikistrip7.png

Polypeptide answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(0)

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How about a math cartoon?

alt text http://catb.org/jargon/html/graphics/73-05-18.png

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http://shortminds.com/comics/2008-09-19.jpg

Check out Shortminds.com for more

Pepsin answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(2)

Except input is a self-closing tag. – Exploration 27/5, 2009 at 17:55

@kaji except self-closing elements like <input /> – Burse 1/11, 2010 at 16:16

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Babbage and Lovelace Vs The Client

Includes historical notes

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http://hackles.org/cgi-bin/archives.pl?request=75 Hackles http://hackles.org/strips/cartoon75.png

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alt text http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/879/billgateslastmoments.jpg

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This is from Steve Yegge talking about the verbosity of Java.

Trabeated answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(1)

Steve Yegge talking about verbosity. How ironic. – Tagliatelle 21/9, 2008 at 18:30

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in which we discuss the philosophy of computer science and programming architecture by the seemingly-defunct Standard Out:

in which we discuss the philosophy of computer science and programming architecture http://lh3.ggpht.com/tremendotron/SKFBIbEccOI/AAAAAAAAAI0/qOTa3XJZHho/in%20which%20we%20discuss%20.jpg

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http://wondermark.com/c/2008-11-25-464forgot.gif

Imago answered 17/9, 2008 at 15:34 Comment(3)

Is that a humoctopus in the last panel? :-) (Check everettcc.edu/news/2009/index.cfm?id=9242, or Google it if you've never heard of a humoctopus before.) – Marisolmarissa 6/3, 2009 at 3:55

Fun, but I dont quite know how it's programming related. – Jedediah 2/7, 2009 at 18:18

I guess folks could see how this is programming related if their management was as inconsistent about what they want them doing as mine is. You mean nobody else has this problem? – Imago 27/7, 2010 at 15:10

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For those who have worked at Accenture www.bigtimeconsulting.com has some awesome ones...

Here are just a few:

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