Tag: Humor
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Re: Your unsolicited email / our joint problem
To: ana.tackett@orcapr.com, eastonjohnston@iodimpact.com, digitalpragency@gmail.com, RobertP@informationhub.biz, gina@bloc.io, pms990@gmail.com, jillr@blackswansmedia.com, davidf@lfpr.com, khurst@harriswilliams.com, nancyt@vorticom.com, james@planet-dm.com, … Dear PR professional: With respect to our joint problem, Stanford researchers have found a solution! Please see here for the answer: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf With kind regards, Dirk Riehle PS: If the research paper above doesn’t load, please see this copy: remove.pdf
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O RLY? LaTeX beautiful typesetting
Too (professionally) funny not to share it.
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The reviews are in and it ain’t pretty
From the first review: Best application of grounded theory that I have seen in a long time! From the second review: I have seen grounded theory; this ain’t it. From the third review: What is grounded theory? Conclusion: No more grounded theory. PS: Those reviews are a synthesis of prior experiences.
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One student’s first encounter with academic writing
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Non sequitur #DesignPatternsHumor
A colleague earlier today showed me this student answer from one of his exams: The student answer for “name a design pattern” is “hotel” and the answer for “that pattern’s intent” is “book hotel”. Repeat for a second pattern called “flight” and its intent “book flight”.
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Bertrand Meyer: Electrical engineering vs. computer science
Bertrand Meyer, at the 40 Years of Software Engineering panel at ICSE 2008, on May 16, 2008, 11:56am: “Electrical engineering is to computer science what making a bed is to making love.” I’m not entirely sure this is true, but it certainly makes for a memorable quote. UPDATE: I had mentioned my enjoyment of this…