Nobody understands the sentiment “work smarter, not harder” better than programmers. Bill Gates said it himself

As a young kid interested in math and engineering, you'd never think that a misplaced semicolon, parentheses, or bracket could get you down so badly. The feeling of spending hours and hours on your beautifully crafted code can inspire pride. “Look at me," you might think. “I've created an impeccable masterpiece that could never be replicated. This is better than anything in the MOMA, the Met, or the Louvre. I was sent to earth with the Midas touch, and baby, I've been getting my hands dirty." B…

Jokes about esoteric topics like programming and computer science are best communicated through memes. Otherwise, you've got yourself with a bunch of corny knock-knock jokes that nobody under 55 will enjoy. For instance, the following jokes are what you could be getting if you got your programming humor elsewhere. "Programmer goes to his computer. He's working at home. Right now, he's coding a music player for his own system. He tests it, seeing that it works. His friend calls him and says: "Wh…

Stephen Wilhite, father of the GIF , has passed away. He was 74 years old. It's impossible to imagine an internet without GIFs. By the time the World Wide Web became publicly available in 1993, GIF was already established as a popular image format because of its LZW data compression, which gave color images portability between software applications. Because they emerged around the same time, the GIF and the internet shaped each other throughout the 90s. The look of the internet would have turne…

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