Nerd humor

Some source code comments you can find around are really awesome!

Here's to you a selection:

// no comments for you
// it was hard to write 
// so it sould be hard to read

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Skype: for the nerds Beta ad aeternum

Skype has released a new update for Linux. The 2.2 version...Beta.

There are substantial improvements over the previous version like the call waiting support and Skype Access, but we're still talking about a Beta version.

Ok, you do not want to release the open source version, but a stable one would not be a bad idea.

The Bad Man said: "You use Linux. You are sad. You are ugly and stinking nerds. You will eat Beta for the rest of your life" .

Goodbye Gnome

News a few days ago: from the 11.10 Ubuntu distribution, users will no longer able to choose between Gnome and Unity. Unity will be the only available interface and Gnome will become just a memory.

Considering that Unity is one of the things I liked less of the last Ubuntu team developments together with the new, but in my opinion very malfunctioning Ubuntu Software Center, I will get interested in other GNU/Linux distributions maybe Debian based and maybe using Gnome...Mint for example.

We'll see...we'll see...

Four friends, four computers, one project and a few beers

A lunch with friends is an excellent opportunity to brainstorm and start a new important project.

I can assure you that between jokes and glasses of beer, some interesting ideas come out.

Little advice: do not overdo it with beer or writing an algorithm that simulates the ETT routing metrics for wireless mesh networks could become very very hard.

A little contest about logic & programming

Problem:

find an integer that multiplied by 4 gives a number that has the same digits, but with opposite order compared to the original number.

Example with n digits:

X1X2...Xn-1Xn  *  4  =  XnXn-1...X2X1

where X1 is the  first digit, X2 the second digit....Xn the n-th digit.

Pay attention: we don't know how many digits compose the number.

If you have the solution, post it in the comment.

The next step is to write a simple algorithm that would be able to find the solution by itself. I'm trying to do it using the C++...or maybe I should just go out. 
Definitely, I need to go out.

Bye.

Easter egg...oh that's cool!

Often a developer to mark his works and make them more original and funny uses the "Easter egg", an hidden and innocuos content (completely dinstinguished from the usual functioning of the product) that can be displayed using particular commands or through a key trick or...wathever. Videogames, web applications and softwares are full of this stuff.