Daily Fortunes

Feb 18, 2015

AmigaDOS Beer: The company has gone out of business, but their...
AmigaDOS Beer: The company has gone out of business, but their recipe has been picked up by some weird German company, so now this beer will be an import. This beer never really sold very well because the original manufacturer didn't understand marketing. Like Unix Beer,...

An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble...
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.

An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed. --...
An algorithm must be seen to be believed. -- D.E. Knuth

... an anecdote from IBM's Yorktown Heights Research Center...
... an anecdote from IBM's Yorktown Heights Research Center. When a programmer used his new computer terminal, all was fine when he was sitting down, but he couldn't log in to the system when he was standing up. That behavior was 100 percent repeatable: he could always...

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