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17 Mar 18:46

Manuals

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.'
17 Jul 08:30

True story : just do!

by CommitStrip

29 Jun 16:54

How To Train Your Cat 4

by Doug

How To Train Your Cat 4

Here are Lesson 1, Lesson 2, and Lesson 3.

21 Jun 23:14

Prometheus

'I'm here to return what Prometheus stole.' would be a good thing to say if you were a fighter pilot in a Michael Bay movie where for some reason the world's militaries had to team up to defeat every god from human mythology, and you'd just broken through the perimeter and gotten a missile lock on Mount Olympus.
19 Jun 00:02

Photo



17 Jun 17:29

Are coders worth it?

by James Somers

Relax, you're at work. Photo by Jason Madara/Gallery StockThere’s this great moment in the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) when the world’s most celebrated sushi chef turns to his son, who is leaving to start his own restaurant, and says: ‘You have no home to come back to.’ Which, when you think about it, isn’t harsh or discouraging but is in fact [...]

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