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- bdawg923, on 03/24/2008, -11/+312If that was on xckd.com you would've laughed.
- Loopholes, on 03/24/2008, -70/+369xkcd wannabe alert.
- JayD16, on 03/24/2008, -8/+231Because xkcd has a patent on pencil line drawings or something?
- Bviper, on 03/24/2008, -80/+253Now if only that was actually funny...
- fhernand, on 03/24/2008, -11/+176WTF
- wickedawsome, on 03/24/2008, -0/+106Unfortunately, I do this when looking at my own code.
- bagboyrebel, on 03/24/2008, -3/+106it's funny if you have experience programming and looking at other peoples code.
- doshindude, on 03/24/2008, -28/+103WTF @ this ***** comic.
great idea, terrible execution. - inactive, on 03/24/2008, -4/+66I dunno, sometimes a "WTF?!" is a sign of really, really *good* code. As in so good that it totally blows your mind. This especially happens with some of the more obscure or "non-traditional" languages. LISP usually has a pretty high WTF/min rate for really, really slick code; so does Haskell (but who the hell uses Haskell?). You can also get pretty sneaky with dynamic programming in Ruby...
/ruining the joke - trghpy, on 03/24/2008, -11/+65Decent joke material, bad joke presentation.
Sorta like my manager knows how well the network is doing by how often he hears me say "awe bloody hell." - bagboyrebel, on 03/24/2008, -3/+55and nerd humor
- crownedgriffin, on 03/24/2008, -3/+50Those of you who don't find this funny obviously don't have a job supporting ***** software.
- ghee, on 03/24/2008, -7/+53A graph would have helped.
- nova912, on 03/24/2008, -6/+52GOTO;
- deaconyermouf, on 03/24/2008, -1/+40http://www.xkcd.com/292/
- xerigen, on 03/24/2008, -1/+36You guys are harsh. I chuckled.
- kalleanka, on 03/24/2008, -10/+45Stop complaining.
It was a good joke and it was well made. - dsmx, on 03/24/2008, -7/+41I never thought I'd say this but that is drawn even worse than xkcd.
- badjoke, on 03/24/2008, -1/+35You rang?
- inactive, on 03/24/2008, -2/+36Dugg for not being an xkcd and still making the front page.
- Yareking, on 03/24/2008, -0/+28http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/1980/codecw6.jp ...
- 711Security, on 03/24/2008, -8/+36Spoiler title.
- offput, on 03/24/2008, -2/+30Seems to me like we should let funny people be funny, regardless of the similarity of their work. It's not like he's plagiarizing xkcd's comics, and these are pretty funny.
- str1fe, on 03/24/2008, -5/+28I haven't bookmarked xkcd because I can rely on digg frontpaging every single comic without fail.
- phybere, on 03/24/2008, -1/+24Not really, it just bring back painful memories.
- martypal2005, on 03/24/2008, -0/+21Haha, this is awesome. Dugg.
It's so true. You never hear the programmers every say, "Hey, thats brilliant, bravo.". There only silence (which means its good), then theres WTF. - Pete0430, on 03/24/2008, -1/+21I just cringed
- ascheinberg, on 03/24/2008, -0/+19By your definition, Perl is pretty much *never* good code.
- scubaninja, on 03/24/2008, -0/+16"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
- Brian Kernighan - comrade693, on 03/24/2008, -1/+16Exactly. I stand by my definition.
- debuggercll, on 03/24/2008, -2/+17WTF?
- TypeEE, on 03/24/2008, -1/+15In real world, code reviews are mostly dead silent or "okay", "okay", moan for boringness, then "okay"
- stupidStan, on 03/24/2008, -0/+14oh my god... this was posted on another site!
YOU CANT POST IT HERE!!!
Everyone reads all the other sites! - specialK16, on 03/24/2008, -0/+14Oh ***** you people. You hate it only because it isn't xkcd. Munroe is like a god in here....
- Skooma714, on 03/24/2008, -5/+19Don't worry , the new xkcd comes up in about 10 minutes.
- Hitchhiker90, on 03/24/2008, -1/+14If any of you ***** actually read osnews you would know Thom is NOT trying to be xkcd. He told his story on there that the site needed some humor and he was willing to draw up some comics and asked for opinions on it. xkcd is not the only cartoonist, was not the first, and will not be the last. The sunday paper had them long before xkcd was around so those of you saying he's copying ask yourself who is really copying who? Hell Doonesbury had some of the ***** before xkcd. I know this is digg and its cool to bash someone before knowing the story behind them.
- vibrokatana, on 03/24/2008, -0/+13I looked at your comment and said WTF because it was lame.
- asskey, on 03/24/2008, -3/+16WTF
- hackiavelli, on 03/24/2008, -3/+16I especially get the WTF moments when looking through old code I wrote. They usually break down into two types: the "I can't believe I wrote anything that elegant and expandable" WTF and the "I can't believe I ever wrote anything this horrible" WTF. Sadly the latter happens more than the former.
- ekravchenko, on 03/24/2008, -0/+12It's funny because it's true
- tempusrob, on 03/24/2008, -1/+12And that's why you don't (or shouldn't, anyway, if that's your attitude) code for a living! ;)
- rentmitchum, on 03/24/2008, -0/+10It was funny because it's true. The slower you say WTF the worse the error probably is too. That could be part of the graph someone suggested. Haha.
- xartion, on 03/24/2008, -0/+9"This would stroke the ego of tech guys who think they are the ***** but really just post on forums all day."
and that is different from digg how???
/jokes - publiclurker, on 03/24/2008, -2/+10How about C++ programmers who use the fact that the language is case sensitive. Spending more than a few minutes on code where two classes vary only by the camel casing is enough to make you research justifiable homicide rules in your state.
- yacks, on 03/24/2008, -0/+8and i used to draw stick figure comics in my notebooks in high school which predates XKCD which must mean that they are stealing my style.
- oblique63, on 03/24/2008, -0/+8aw, look like someone's not a programmer...
- OneLess, on 03/24/2008, -5/+12I believe xkcd mostly uses pen and ink drawings.
- bobkingof12vs, on 03/24/2008, -3/+10WTF
- vibrokatana, on 03/24/2008, -2/+9Perl is usually pretty easy to read. What I hate are the VB programmers who take the fact that their language is not case sensitive to heart and make you want to kill them for random capitalization changes all over....
- comrade693, on 03/24/2008, -0/+7Documentation that requires you to go away from the code will never be looked at, unless we are talking about external api docs, which is a bit different. People, especially programmers, are inherently lazy and can't be bothered to look elsewhere for documentation.
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