décembre 2013 (8)

vendredi 20 décembre 2013

Un biologiste, un ingénieur et un mathématicien ...

A biologist, an engineer, and a mathematician are staking out an empty house. They see two people walk in. Later, they see three people walk out. The biologist says, "They must have multiplied!" The engineer says, "I think it was measurement error." The mathematician says,  […]

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Life before the computer

An application was for employment A program was a TV show A cursor used profanity A keyboard was a piano! Memory was something that you lost with age A CD was a bank account And if you had a 3-inch floppy You hoped nobody found out! Compress was something you did to garbage Not something you did to  […]

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Les différentes manières de chasser l'éléphant

MATHEMATICIANS hunt elephants by going to Africa, throwing out everything that is not an elephant, and catching one of whatever is left. EXPERIENCED MATHEMATICIANS will attempt to prove the existence of at least one unique elephant before proceeding to step 1 as a subordinate exercise. PROFESSORS OF  […]

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Blagues de programmeurs

When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb. Q: how many programmers does it take to change a light bulb? A: none, that's a hardware problem Q: How many prolog programmers does it take to change a light bulb? A: Yes. Q: how many Microsoft programmers does it take to change a  […]

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IT vs management

A man flying in a hot air balloon suddenly realizes he’s lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts to get directions, "Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?" The man below says: "Yes. You're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet  […]

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vendredi 13 décembre 2013

Perl

Les citations de Larry Wall : http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Wall Perl résumé par Randall Munroe : Regular Expressions Lisp "Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life."  […]

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jeudi 12 décembre 2013

Kids can't use computers ...

"Les enfants ne savent pas se servir d’un ordinateur et vous devriez vous en inquiéter", c'est le titre de cet article (la VO est ici), qui m'interpelle et me concerne. On a chacun son portable à la maison, je passe mes journées avec deux postes de travail, je ne suis certes pas un vrai  […]

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mardi 3 décembre 2013

ITER (2)

Voilà un projet qu'il va être intéressant de suivre sur le long terme ... Je profite de mon abonnement (sans doute temporaire) à Mediapart pour relayer cet article datant de début 2012 : Le réacteur Iter, chambre de confinement d'un gaz ionisé porté à 100 millions de degrés, est la version d'une  […]

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