Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Geekisms

I enjoy reading and collecting "Geekisms" as I call them, and thought I'd share some with you ... Let me know if you have any others.

There’s no place like 127.0.0.1

There are 10 types of people in this world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

> Select * FROM users WHERE clue > 0
0 rows returned

While(!(succeed=try()));

> ping localhost
Request timed out.
Host unreachable.

You are experiencing an ID-ten-T error. We’ve narrowed it down to PEBKAC.

01000010 01111001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01001101 01100101 00100001 00100001

2 comments:

J said...

In many languages, you'd want to express it this way: while(!(succeed==try()));
(use comparison rather than assignment)
otherwise you'd be saying the opposite message.

J said...

I should take back my last post -- most evaluate to the result of the assignment.