When did animals develop facial recognition technology? Shouldn't we have started monitoring long before they got this advanced?

I can still remember spending many days reading and re-reading parts of "The Scelbi/Byte Primer", trying to understand the source listings. When I finally understood how a processor actually works, everything suddenly snapped into focus.

The irony is that if you imagine all the negative comments about the show as being spoken by Sheldon, they are actually a pretty spot-on representation of his character.

*That* is really funny.

Bah! Real programmers don't need fancy crap like assemblers! They program directly in machine language ;-)

I believe that's called an "Extinction Level Event". I wouldn't worry about IDs after that...

Just use the same password everywhere. "monkey" is always a good choice.

... Profit!

Exactly!

Encryption export restrictions were incredibly effective because no other country has mathematicians.

I mean, it's not as if VPN technology is freely available right now. Even if it wasn't, there are no programmers skilled enough to implement that sort of thing anywhere else in the world.

There are no stars! ... and the shadows are wrong somehow! ... and the wave pattern proves something something something! ... and ... and ... there is no Moon!

So what would they say for "octet?"

An octet is not necessarily the same as a byte.

Yes, of course, they are all robots.

The point is that, until the robots are making their own moment-by-moment tactical decisions, it's just not that interesting to watch.

Calling the Windows API simple and elegant is the funniest thing I've heard all day.

>> It has been called the Persian Gulf since around 550 BC.

Good point. Maybe Google should go back to the original owners and name it the "Gulf of Mesopotamia."

It should be labelled the Exxon Gulf.

I couldn't agree more. But I would add one caveat: Beware of developers who really know the debugger. They usually seem to be the ones introducing most of the bugs into the code.