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What is this sarcasm you speak of, it's completely new to me 
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Matt McGuire wrote: What is this sarcasm you speak of...
demonstrating one of the skills programmers have.
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I don't know, but I'm more interested in whether all programmers are pedantic?
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That's off topic - start a new thread
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Sorry, was intended to be a joke, didn't realise that would be off topic.
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I just thought that I would be pedantic - also as a joke, but now that I know what pedantic really means I can see how putting a joke icon on my reply wasn't really pedantic enough. Thanks for getting back to me. I will use your feedback to better myself. 
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Yortw wrote: I'm more interested in whether all programmers are pedantic?
Don't you need to be pedantic to have the patience to learn to program? Pedantic people exhibit huge patience to be with themselves and I think that might be transferred into programming skills.
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I've always understood pedantic as a combination of the word 'pedant' (teacher) and a very detail oriented person.. so being pedantic is being focused on always teaching someone something.. a 'pedantic essay' spends a lot of time making sure the reader knows what the author is talking about, rather than assuming some expertise on the part of the reader and getting on with the point of the article/book.
Given this definition, I don't think of programmers as mostly pedantic.. I actually see them hating to explain things to those that don't 'get it'. I've met a few that are.. but most I fear are not that way...
And.. entertainingly.. this response is pedantic! =)
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He says.. waving the metaphorical red cape in front of the angry bull..
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That's "... the metaphorical angry bull" 
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Indeed.. I stand corrected! =)
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Ahhh. A human wrote this! (To Err is human)
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All humans are taught how to use sarcasm. Some humans manage to withhold being sarcastic. Last I heard, all programmers who count (effectively write new code) are human. Therefore I would say that "All programmers are sarcastic" is a false statement. Only 99.999% of them are sarcastic. (That includes me, but I think in this post I'm just sardonic. Didn't revisit that last word in a dictionary so I hope its usage is correct.)
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50% of all =)
-How you writing your code?
-with my keyboard 
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Not normal programmers, just the extroverts ....ooops, and those who learned that sarcasm is the best way to get people to leave them alone so they can build what those inconsiderate users, with all of their useless requirements and suggestions, really need.
cat fud heer
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What is a picture of a thousand words worth?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Surely Bob is priceless?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If it's a screen shot of Excel it's worthless.
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Two poems and a hologram of a cat in a box.
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Tim Deveaux wrote: a cat in a box
Schroedinger's cat?
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No, he died years ago of exposure. I was thinking of my friends cat Fred. Nice cat, actually, as cats go...
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More than a thousand words, obviously.
You also get information of the font(s) which are used, their sizes and attributes. If you are lucky, you also gain some insight into the message the artist wanted to send you by choosing those 1000 words and the way he presented them.
You may even get the message that being an artist may be more profitable than what you are doing right now. at least as long as sufficiently rich and gullible people believe to be drawing endless streams of information out of your works of art.
Edit: That leads to another deep thought:
Are you still a fraud when all your artwork goes away for a lot of money and deep artistic meaning is discovered in every one of them?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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My son is an artist and recently got a commission for a piece of art that took him about three hours to complete, about $15 in materials and he sold for $1,500! That's nearly $500 an hour which is definitely more than I get paid to write code.
This sounds great but it doesn't happen on a regular basis so he also now works for Microsoft - a new job starting this week.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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