Comments on: Geekery Meets Pop Culture http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/10/20/geekery-meets-pop-culture/ Tech Evangelist Joey deVilla on software development, tech news and other nerdy stuff Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:30:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joey deVilla http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/10/20/geekery-meets-pop-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-755 Joey deVilla Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:34:51 +0000 http://globalnerdy.com/2007/10/20/geekery-meets-pop-culture/#comment-755 <strong>@Tom:</strong> Fixed! @Tom: Fixed!

]]> By: Joey deVilla http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/10/20/geekery-meets-pop-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-757 Joey deVilla Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:00:50 +0000 http://globalnerdy.com/2007/10/20/geekery-meets-pop-culture/#comment-757 <strong>@Tom:</strong> Dang! Looks like I pasted in the wrong image. I should fix that. Thanks for the heads-up, Tom! @Tom: Dang! Looks like I pasted in the wrong image. I should fix that.

Thanks for the heads-up, Tom!

]]> By: Tom http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/10/20/geekery-meets-pop-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-756 Tom Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:35:44 +0000 http://globalnerdy.com/2007/10/20/geekery-meets-pop-culture/#comment-756 Surely branch 2a should be Deep Space 9? Surely branch 2a should be Deep Space 9?

]]> By: Jordan http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/10/20/geekery-meets-pop-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-754 Jordan Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:40:06 +0000 http://globalnerdy.com/2007/10/20/geekery-meets-pop-culture/#comment-754 The funny thing about that ad is that they explicitly made it so that non-programmers would understand it (just by reading the text and ignoring the punctuation). Amazingly, a programmer might have a harder time understanding it than a lay person. A programmer would have written something like this: if(you.understand(this)) { you.get(girlfriend); } ...which, semantically, means something completely different to a non-programmer than a programmer. The funny thing about that ad is that they explicitly made it so that non-programmers would understand it (just by reading the text and ignoring the punctuation). Amazingly, a programmer might have a harder time understanding it than a lay person. A programmer would have written something like this:

if(you.understand(this)) {
you.get(girlfriend);
}

…which, semantically, means something completely different to a non-programmer than a programmer.

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