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Personally I like this one:

P.S. Do not hotlink the cartoon without the site's permission please.

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Another one from xkcd Exploits of a Mom

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I like this one: http://xkcd.com/149/

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The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute

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I wrote a production website that has the path /dev/random/ return 4 because of this comic.

int get_rand_number(){ return 4;}

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XKCD Comic 303 - "Compiling"

('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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    Randall Munroe, the creator of xkcd, discusses how he actually tested this theory during a talk at Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24 -- start at 8:26 or so. The talk is also exciting because Donald Knuth asks the first question! – A. Rex Sep 23 '08 at 01:07
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It's sooo funny, because it's true :)

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Religious debates are always fun!

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Of course, xkcd!

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I knew it was true. XKCD #224

"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:

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XKCD hits the button every time.

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(I hear this is an option in the latest Ubuntu release.)

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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.

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Terms and Conditions cartoon from brainstuck.com

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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One of my favourite :)

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

If all bugs were so easy to close.

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One more which I liked: No offences.. :)

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    I shared this one with the guys at my old job, explaining that this is how it feels sometimes. I got some blank looks, and one confused "So all girls are awesome at programming?" – Donnelle Dec 05 '08 at 12:10
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Without a doubt...

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    @Anheledir: you can't parse arbitrary nested parentheses with classic regexps. – jfs Sep 17 '08 at 16:37
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  • Well, if you restrict the depth of the expressions to something reasonably large, the automaton can handle it. I remember Martin Kay telling us in one class that he spent half a year of his life on converting CFGs into limited-depth FSAs. – Torsten Marek Sep 20 '08 at 21:32
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  • xan: You can always construct a bigger FSA, but the point is whether or not ONE given FSA can handle ALL expressions of this kind, no matter how long. – Adrian Grigore Mar 14 '09 at 08:37
  • Where does this come from? I only find links to blogspam and image hosting sites for it on Google. – Johannes Hoff Nov 08 '09 at 15:52
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As a project wears on, standards for success slip lower and lower

("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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    BTW, I us PHP too! =P and didn't mean this as a putdown in anyway. Just found it amusing as a fanboy style comic. It could apply to any languages in either role. – Quintin Robinson Sep 18 '08 at 16:54
  • Seeing as (afair) Stack Overflow was actually built with .NET, I have decided to retroactively start respecting people who use it – Jens Roland Jan 27 '09 at 07:44
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    I rolled my own DAL and 'architectural solution for repurposing business logic to a desktop environment'. But when I get irritated by the irredemable failure of compile-time type checking (or anything else), jackass PHP fanboys tell me it's because there's something wrong with me, not PHP. – chaos Feb 22 '09 at 11:34
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John Martz has a blog entry to go with this. IE6 denial message

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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!

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  • i'd have better luck at this version. i recently tried http://www.quakelive.com/ – bobobobo Jul 12 '09 at 22:29
  • on quakelive: incompatible browser (chrome) – Ewan Todd Dec 06 '09 at 18:49
  • Alt text: I'm sure a discussion of the reason for the disappearance of adventure games in favor of RPGs would be fascinating – Doppelganger Feb 13 '10 at 18:45
  • Mezoid, that's what got us all into IT. If someone told every kid they're gonna pass the rest of their lives coding boring business software, there wouldn't be a single programmer on earth. – Petruza Dec 13 '10 at 15:24
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Here's a new one from Dinosaur Comics:

ladies and gentlemen: mr. stack overflow! http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-82.png

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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.

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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  • Particularly relevant as I saw a Microsoft Surface table today – harriyott Sep 19 '08 at 22:49
  • @Frank: Not to mention movies, like James Bond: Quantum of Solace. – RobH Mar 05 '09 at 03:38
  • "Welcome to LCARS menu system" Um, except LCARS actually came out OK on Nokia's internet tablets – Ivan Vučica Mar 15 '09 at 21:16
  • Touchscreens are perfectly useful. The millions of them in use in portable gaming consoles, phones, tablet PCs, digitizing tablets, and hundreds of other applications attest to this. This comic only illustrates why touchscreens are impractical as an input device for desktop systems. – Lèse majesté Aug 24 '10 at 15:15
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Another great Foxtrot comic. Possibly the most incomprehensible-to-non-geeks comic to sneak into the newspaper funnies.

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  • I like the for loop: for (int i=1;i<=numBrainCells;i++) { turnOn(brain[i]) system.out.println("Yawn"); } – splattne Aug 11 '09 at 15:11
  • What is it with Foxtrot and starting iteration at 1 instead of 0? – Michael Dickens Nov 11 '09 at 04:08
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  • @Sorin Comanescu actually brain has to have been initialized and is pointing to null. First brain must be initialized. Also, numBrainCells has to be *declared*! – Nitrodist May 23 '10 at 23:34
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I love this one: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/road_rage.png

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This is my everyday.

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(it's how people feel )

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    Being a C# developer, I fail to see the joke. Not because I want to defend C#, but because I don't get it? What has Ruby and Lisp coders against C#? – Statement May 29 '10 at 18:44
  • @Statement it's simply this: Ruby is currently the "coolest" language at the moment. Lisp, as you know, is the revered language. The cartoon implicitly implies both Ruby and Lisp are cool. C# on the other hand is a "mainstream language", so, it's not "cool." I also think the cartoon is implying both Lisp and Ruby programmers are fanatics? – sivabudh Nov 22 '10 at 22:55
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Old black and white version (there's nothing new under the sun) http://www.lore.ua.ac.be/Teaching/SE3BAC/SoftwareSpecCartoon.gif

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The very first bug bash is great!

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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 :)

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Real Programmers Code in Binary http://zeljkofilipin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/real-programmers-code-in-binary.jpg

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

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Made for grad students, but applies equally to programmers

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PHD Comics - Brain on a Stick

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I'm surprised this one was missing:

A Bunch of Rocks

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The doomed project

a nice collection

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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. alt text http://www.arcanology.net/sticksandstones/comics/comic-10.gif

Hackles is frequently about programming. This one's probably my favorite: Hackles, by Drake Emko & Jen Brodzik http://hackles.org/strips/cartoon334.png It's not quite a programming comic, but I also really dug this strip from Full Frontal Nerdery:

Full Frontal Nerdity by Aaron Williams http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/strips/2008-03-12.jpg

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C++ forest

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I didn't see this one which is one of my favorite xkcd :

Donald Knuth

(His books were kinda intimidating; rappelling down through his skylight seemed like the best option.)

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I can't believe 6 pages of answers and no one mentions the banana jr 6000. How quickly we forget.

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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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Hello my favorit is this one

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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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What?! No PhDComics? Check this out: alt text http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd1112.gif

Remember this was 1997!!

Also read the following strips... Hilarious!

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not directly something about programming, but i guess every programmer knows flowcharts xD

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Edited for grammar :P

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(guess you have to work on sev zero bugs to get this one)

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Dilbert http://www.laputan.org/images/pictures/elbonia-900406.gif

This is something I found reading about anti-patterns.

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alt text http://www.bugbash.net/strips/bug-bash20060227.gif

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This is old, I'm totally not sure about the permissions and I'm ready to remove it.alt text http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/8456/easycfm4.jpg

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I think the IT consultant's image is the best:

Reasons why people who work with computers have a lot of spare time

(linking because the picture's pretty big)

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Just had to put this here

http://www.implementingscrum.com/images/070806-scrumtoon.jpg

From here

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Ten reasons you know you're living in 2009

  1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
  2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
  3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
  4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
  5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
  6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
  7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
  8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
  9. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
  10. You're reading this and nodding and laughing. :)
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SPOILER ALERT!!!

Cutting Edge

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For an Agile shop ... THIS is fantastic... As a dev, it just speaks volumes.

Great Fun: from Implementing Scrum by Clark & vizdos.

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  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28development%29 in the end, the comic made itself be programmer related :P – Andy Nov 22 '10 at 12:44
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alt text http://www.geekherocomic.com/comics/2009-08-03-hardcoded-limits.png

Was I can do stackoverflow in a weekend the inspiration for this cartoon?

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There's a Russian version of Bash.org at Bash.org.ru. What they do now is they take favorite quotes and turn them into cartoons or comic strips. Here's one of my favorite ones: Tester http://s.bash.org.ru/img/67c5y2emi7vwmrnd263759.jpg

  1. We've got a clever tester now -What do you mean?

  2. He's found bunch of stuff... A funny symbol there, a weird key combination here. He's real good

  3. But sometimes... I really want to smash his face

Link to site: http://bash.org.ru/comics/20080111

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From Bug Bash:

alt text http://www.bugbash.net/strips/bug-bash20070723.gif

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http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-1512.png

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HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
    UP VAR!!1
    VISIBLE VAR
    IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBAI

Taken from :http://lolcode.com/ KTHXBAI!!

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Tragically, my favorite cartoon is too old to be on the interwebs.

It's from Datamation. (Remember Datamation?) A man is sitting at a desk. There are bits of electronics everywhere. Rubble is strewn into every corner of the room. His face and hair are singed.

He is thinking "It's never done that before."

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The Contiki Strip

A comic set in a small Norwegian software company. All text in English. Check it out at http://contikistrip.kjempekjekt.com

Contiki Strip http://contikistrip.kjempekjekt.com/images/contikistrip5.png Contiki Strip http://contikistrip.kjempekjekt.com/images/contikistrip7.png

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This is my personal favorite... and the name of all my alpha releases! alt text http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd071009s.gif

original link

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"Helping" out fellow programming co-workers

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http://shortminds.com/comics/2008-09-19.jpg

Check out Shortminds.com for more

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https://roodiedoodie.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/robots8.jpg

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How about a math cartoon?

alt text http://catb.org/jargon/html/graphics/73-05-18.png

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http://hackles.org/cgi-bin/archives.pl?request=75 Hackles http://hackles.org/strips/cartoon75.png

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Babbage and Lovelace Vs The Client

Includes historical notes

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This is from Steve Yegge talking about the verbosity of Java.

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    Is that a humoctopus in the last panel? :-) (Check http://www.everettcc.edu/news/2009/index.cfm?id=9242, or Google it if you've never heard of a humoctopus before.) – RobH Mar 06 '09 at 03:55
  • Fun, but I dont quite know how it's programming related. – Brian Jul 02 '09 at 18:18
  • I guess folks could see how this is programming related if their management was as inconsistent about what they want them doing as mine is. You mean nobody else has this problem? – skiphoppy Jul 27 '10 at 15:10
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in which we discuss the philosophy of computer science and programming architecture by the seemingly-defunct Standard Out:

in which we discuss the philosophy of computer science and programming architecture http://lh3.ggpht.com/tremendotron/SKFBIbEccOI/AAAAAAAAAI0/qOTa3XJZHho/in%20which%20we%20discuss%20.jpg

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For those who have worked at Accenture www.bigtimeconsulting.com has some awesome ones...

Here are just a few:

Bold New Changes

Advice

Dinner

Hit and Run

Tech Support

Quitter

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