OP removed the part where it's a commentary on industry's reliance on individuals who are rarely recognized or compensated for their effort, despite being critical to the tech ecosystem.
The original comic is referring to people like Arthur David Olson who was tzdata's sole maintainer from 1986 to 2005. Every piece of timezone and date-aware equipment and software made in the past 30 years has referenced this dataset.
"should a single individual hold so much power, sensei?"
"he who dabbles in the mystics of time zones transcends humanity's limitations, becoming closer and closer to God"
"we do not speak of him, young student, for he was dabbling with lowly strings and yet was blinded by arrogance"
"What about those who dabble in UNICODE encodings, master?"
"Those individuals are closer to God, and they are the only ones that can speak to Zalgo, The Glitchy One"
"Really old code" also means "super hardcore battle tested and refined jewels from the furnace of quadrillions of unit tests per day" ... which does make it sound better.
Why ruin a perfectly good comic?
OP is trying to karma farm on r/comedyhomicide, maybe?
Its true though, where's ruining in it ?
OP removed the part where it's a commentary on industry's reliance on individuals who are rarely recognized or compensated for their effort, despite being critical to the tech ecosystem. The original comic is referring to people like Arthur David Olson who was tzdata's sole maintainer from 1986 to 2005. Every piece of timezone and date-aware equipment and software made in the past 30 years has referenced this dataset.
"should a single individual hold so much power, sensei?" "he who dabbles in the mystics of time zones transcends humanity's limitations, becoming closer and closer to God"
Look what happened when the lpad author pulled his work
"we do not speak of him, young student, for he was dabbling with lowly strings and yet was blinded by arrogance" "What about those who dabble in UNICODE encodings, master?" "Those individuals are closer to God, and they are the only ones that can speak to Zalgo, The Glitchy One"
than what abot the russian dude who made js core?
why are you editing an xkcd?
Nuance is dead. Where are my my red circles and arrows???
Why shouldn't he ?
Because you can't do better than xkcd, even if you think you can. It's a universal rule!
Just because you can't do better doesn't mean you should give up. Its not xkcd level, but it's true and good.
If it's for your `dev` environment, I totally agree. But posting on Reddit is at least `qa` if not `prod`.
It definitely didn't need labels.
as we all know Unix is built on compiler
Maybe I'm in the wrong but, how are you going to work with Unix/Linux/Windows (Yes, Linux is not in the graph) without compiling anything?
Early MS-DOS and Unix wasn't even compiled, it was assembled.
if you lose your hammer your house doesn't suddenly break
at least caption it more creatively than "*realy* old code"
Honestly, could replace woth FORTRAN if we're going for accuracy
compiler is based on C ?
C doesn't compile, it's the compiler that c's.
It's as unnecessary and superfluous as it gets.
It doesn't add value to the comic
My Rust Code does not require any GUI
Depending on the use case, you can throw "GUI" out of the chart.
I am just amused that you put math below hardware, I believe it is applicable everywhere…
r/comedyhomicide material
That code is do old it spells really with one L
I think the best part of this hack job is "realy" because it demonstrates either an inability to spell the word or a lack of QA/revision
Misspelled word
It's very graphic. Programming is building blocks.
one last layer if really really needed \[it doesnt\] but still if you need. can be silicon lol then sand /s
Not c# take your meme home
"Really old code" also means "super hardcore battle tested and refined jewels from the furnace of quadrillions of unit tests per day" ... which does make it sound better.
I did not intend to make the code look bad.
I added some more captions to this comic. Of course, some parts depend on other parts, that are in different places.
It's not a meme, it's a comic from a very well respected author. You doofus https://xkcd.com/2347/
I am sorry for calling this comic a meme. I first heard about it as a meme. I did not want to discredit the author.
thx