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The use of "withhold" implies to me that he means you should hold it back until it builds up enough to really put someone's eye out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Change that to psychotic and we can enter into a serious discussion on the matter.
Otherwise - wanna see what I'm going to do to that happy face emoticon of yours?
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First thing is, how do you define a programmer? Aren't they the guys who ressemble the antagonist from a horror movie?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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sarcasm[^]: noun
1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.
2. a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark: "a review full of sarcasms."
I think sarcasm becomes a hallmark of most programmer personalities. There is a dissonance between the world and our models of it that gets to be very frustrating, and the expression of that frustration is sarcasm.
Or quiet drooling in a corner.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: sarcasm[^]: noun
1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.
2. a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark: "a review full of sarcasms."
What cr@ppy, inaccurate (and somewhat facile) definitions.
Maybe they're dysloxemixic, and can't see the differences in spelling between "sarcasm" and "sardonicism" (the latter more closely matches their definitions)
Sarcasm requires one to voice the opposite of what one means.
Remind me never to use that dictionary.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Do I detect a hint of sarcasm Mark?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I have no idea what you're talking about.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Then we have perfect synchronicity
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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My level of sarcasm is directly proportional to the level of incompetence around me. Sadly, that means that I am almost always sarcastic to some degree or other. 
Marc
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So you walk around with a bit of a stupid grin on your face all the time too then? 
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JMK-NI wrote: So you walk around with a bit of a stupid grin on your face all the time too then?
Quite so!
Marc
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Lets see, programmers are highly logical people who mostly work in a corporate environment.
Why would we be sarcastic? 
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..there's your typical user. Asks a question, and first remark is that they don't want an answer.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I'm never sarcastic.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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@!&*-off and die you ignorant, *^*%$-ing #@!&*^%$!!
Too much? 
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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I didn't come here for abuse.
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Since when?
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Where do you usually go?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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All the more for the rest of us!
Whip me, beat me, make me write VB...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Following your constraint requirement, I have nothing!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Not: if you consider the larval stage of Programmers, where they are only capable of being facetious, or the imago stage (as their newly inflated ego dries off) where they are only capable of being ironic.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Maybe not all, but sarcasm is a common feature not only of programmers but also of most engineers. I'd guess it's the end result of having to deal on a daily basis with unreasonable expectations, unrecognized efforts, and the unforgiving nature of the Universe.
Myself, I take solace in the fact that one day Skynet will come.
"Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa."
-- Verity Stob
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/05/cplusplus_cli/
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xperroni wrote: Myself, I take solace in the fact that one day Skynet will come.
So, you are looking forward to the day that robots will be trying to exterminate humans?
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KP Lee wrote: So, you are looking forward to the day that robots will be trying to exterminate humans?
No, not "trying", much like the Homo Sapiens wasn't "trying" to get rid of the Neanderthal.
"Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa."
-- Verity Stob
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/05/cplusplus_cli/
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I'm never sar-car-stick
veni bibi saltavi
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