What's your favorite "programmer" cartoon?
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Personally I like this one:
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Another one from xkcd ![Exploits of a Mom][2]
[2]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exploits_of_a_mom.png "Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory."
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I wrote a production website that has the path /dev/random/ return 4 because of this comic.
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('Are you stealing those LCDs?' 'Yeah, but I'm doing it while my code compiles')
I have this one pinned to the wall facing the entrance to our office :)
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http://xkcd.com/323/"><img src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ballmer_peak.png" width="630" title="Apple uses automated schnapps IVs."/>
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http://xkcd.com/292/"><img src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/goto.png" width="640" title="Neal Stephenson thinks it's cute to name his labels 'dengo'" />
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Oh! There can be only one:
http://xkcd.com/386/"><img src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png" title="What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!">
It's sooo funny, because it's true :)
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Religious debates are always fun!
http://xkcd.com/378/">
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png" width="640" title="Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain a disk with the data they want." />
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![alt text][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/DIz8X.jpg "Developers are born brave."
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Of course, xkcd!
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I knew it was true. XKCD #224
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lisp.jpg" width="640" title="We lost the documentation on quantum mechanics. You'll have to decode the regexes yourself." />
"We lost the documentation on quantum mechanics. You'll have to decode the regexes yourself."
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I can't believe someone hasn't put this one:
![alt text][1]
[1]: http://www.jeffiscool.com/pictures/Foxtrot/foxtrot_bluescreenofdeath.JPG "Blue Screen of Death"
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[![Pointers][1]][2]
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pointers.png "Every computer, at the unreachable memory address 0x-1, stores a secret. I found it, and it is that all humans ar-- SEGMENTATION FAULT." [2]: http://xkcd.com/138/
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[![Estimation][1]][2]
XKCD hits the button every time.
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/estimation.png "They could say "the connection is probably lost," but it's more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish." [2]: http://xkcd.com/612/
Solution 22 - Language Agnostic
http://xkcd.com/416/"><img src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/zealous_autoconfig.png" width="640" title="I hear this is an option in the latest Ubuntu release." />
(I hear this is an option in the latest Ubuntu release.)
Solution 23 - Language Agnostic
I didn't know...
[![Listen to Yourself][1]][2]
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/listen_to_yourself.png "Man, I just wanted to know how babby was formed." [2]: http://xkcd.com/481/
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On victory:
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xkcd:
[![Windows 7][1]][2]
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/windows_7.png "Disclaimer: I have not actually tried the beta yet. I hear it's quite pleasant and hardly Hitler-y at all." [2]: http://xkcd.com/528/
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http://xkcd.com/399/"><img src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/travelling_salesman_problem.png" title="What's the complexity class of the best linear programming cutting-plane techniques? I couldn't find it anywhere. Man, the Garfield guy doesn't have these problems ...">
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Dilbert is the top favorite, but I've also really enjoyed the xkcd comics the last couple years. I've got a couple of those posted up in my cube... I try really hard to live by this one.
[![Compiler Complaint][1]][2]
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/compiler_complaint.png "Checking whether build environment is sane ... build environment is grinning and holding a spatula. Guess not." [2]: http://xkcd.com/371/
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https://brainstuck.com/2008/08/08/t-c/
I'm guessing that this would probably never happen, as agreeing to the terms and conditions is more important than actually reading them (from the software publisher perspective).
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http://xkcd.com/356">
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/nerd_sniping.png" title="I first saw this problem on the Google Labs Aptitude Test. A professor and I filled a blackboard without getting anywhere. Have fun.">
Solution 31 - Language Agnostic
One of my favourite :)
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cant_sleep.png" alt="If androids someday DO dream of electric sheep, don't forget to declare sheepCount as a long int." title="If androids someday DO dream of electric sheep, don't forget to declare sheepCount as a long int.">
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![Can't and shouldn't][1]
If all bugs were so easy to close.
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cnr.png "Can't and shouldn't."
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One more which I liked: No offences.. :)
http://xkcd.com/385/"> how it works
![alt text][1]
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/how_it_works.png "It's pi plus C, of course."
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[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/flow_charts.png "At 8 drinks, you switch the torrent from FreeBSD to Microsoft Bob. C'mon, it'll be fun!"
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Without a doubt...
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![As a project wears on, standards for success slip lower and lower][1]
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/success.png "40% of OpenBSD installs lead to shark attacks. It's their only standing security issue."
("40% of OpenBSD installs lead to shark attacks. It's their only standing security issue.")
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Fax me some electricity, please?
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[![I'm An Idiot][1]][2]
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/im_an_idiot.png "Sadly, this is a true story. At least I learned about the OS X 'say' command." [2]: http://xkcd.com/530/
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Manager humour...
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/7469/1517stripsundayiu1.gif" width="640" />
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Quite demonstrative of why metric based incentives and engineers don't go hand in hand.
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[![Pwned][1]][2]
While not specifically about programming per se....wanting to program games is what got me interested in IT in the first place....
anyway this one made me laugh so hard when I saw it!
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pwned.png "I'm sure a discussion of the reason for the disappearance of adventure games in favor of RPGs would be fascinating" [2]: http://xkcd.com/91/
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John Martz has a blog entry to go with this. 
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Here's a new one from Dinosaur Comics:
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This has made my year.
> Some engineer out there has solved P=NP and it's locked up in an electric eggbeater calibration routine. For every 0x5f375a86 we learn about, there are thousands we never see.
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Bit old but still one of my favs:
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Another great Foxtrot comic. Possibly the most incomprehensible-to-non-geeks comic to sneak into the newspaper funnies.
https://arsecandle.org/~rod/foxtrot_java.JPG" />
Solution 55 - Language Agnostic
I love this one: ![https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/road_rage.png][1]
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/road_rage.png "Okay, now just as the loss hits him, slam on the brakes."
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This is my everyday.
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(it's how people feel )
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The very first bug bash is great!
http://www.bugbash.net/strips/bug-bash20050521.gif" width="640" />
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The 1337 set of comics from xkcd, starting with: ![The main thing I love is the thought of Stallman engaging RIAA agents in sword fights towards the end :)][1]
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/1337_part_1.png "If you're not cool enough to do it manually, you can look up tools like Upside-Down-Ternet for playing games with people on your wifi."
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According to http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~cjbs17/computing/binary.html author of this image is Chris Kania and original is at http://www.kaniamania.com/html/1190.html but the entire site is down at the moment.
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![Signs your coders don't have enough work to do][1]
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/not_enough_work.png "It's even harder if you're an asshole who pronounces <> brackets."
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Check this From Apple Desicion on APP.
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Can't help but love it...
![alt text][1]
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/e_to_the_pi_minus_pi.png "Also, I hear the 4th root of (9^2 + 19^2/22) is pi."
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"Emacs Thumb" from User Friendly
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a nice collection
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I'm surprised this one was missing:
[![A Bunch of Rocks][1]][2]
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a_bunch_of_rocks.png "I call Rule 34 on Wolfram's Rule 34." [2]: http://xkcd.com/505/
Solution 81 - Language Agnostic
My all time favorite is probably xkcd's "Sudo make me a sandwich" comic, but there are SO MANY good webcomics out there that I thought I'd throw some others out for fun:
A co-worker pointed me to Sticks and Stones, which just got started pretty recently. It's sort of an xkcd ripoff, but there's some good stuff in there.
Hackles is frequently about programming. This one's probably my favorite:
It's not quite a programming comic, but I also really dug this strip from Full Frontal Nerdery:
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(sequel to this)
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http://ihooky.com/comics/ihooky06.png" width="640" />
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https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/new_pet.png" width="630" title="ONE LAPTOP PER HAMSTER!">
makes me lol
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I can't believe 6 pages of answers and no one mentions the banana jr 6000. How quickly we forget.
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3108/bananaadgz4.gif" width="630">
The other one I love and couldn't find the image for has the punchline "Failure Mr. Jones, is hardly original. Now sit down."
Also from the Bloom County strip.
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I didn't see this one which is one of my favorite xkcd :
![Donald Knuth][1]
(His books were kinda intimidating; rappelling down through his skylight seemed like the best option.)
[1]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/donald_knuth.png "His books were kinda intimidating; rappelling down through his skylight seemed like the best option."
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Hello my favorit is this one
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What?! No PhDComics? Check this out:
Remember this was 1997!!
Also read the following strips... Hilarious!
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I'm going to show my age with the this 1993 classic: On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
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Edited for grammar :P
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not directly something about programming, but i guess every programmer knows flowcharts xD
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Lately I started reading Geek Hero Comic. My favorite parts so far:
