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It's not always intended to be funny, per se. Sometimes the intent, at least what I get from it, is to make one stop and think, or appreciate something a little more. He also from time to time just pays tribute to someone or something that is important to him.
Many are a visual, math or other pun, and can take some thought to "get", and while I'll freely admit I don't always get what he's trying to say, I still read it every day. 
Currently reading: "The Prince", by Nicolo Machiavelli
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Can you send the link to XKCD cartoon you mentioned? It's already tomorrow here (Sydney) and I don't think "today's" comic (http://xkcd.com/1561/) needs a PhD. Btw, and on topic, http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/ is well worth a read if you've never seen it. Bill has been analysing obscure comics online since 1997.
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I wish you would specifically reference which one you are talking about and then we could explain it to you.
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I regularly find them quite funny, on occasion they are even hilarious.
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http://xkcd.com/ wrote: Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
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Its like most jokes.. if you don't have the background, its not funny.
The water phase diagram is hilarious.. except he missed the supercritical fluid/Simon Cowell regions. And I'm still trying to figure where ice 9 and polywater fit (probably next to the polly-want-a-cracker region).
And no, you don't need a PhD, just a good basis in science for that one.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I love XKCD!
There, I said it.
I love XKCD because it's so intensely geeky. If not everybody gets the joke, that's ok. I love XKCD because unlike 99% of the internet, it's not about lolcats, Justin Bieber, or how drunk somebody got last friday. People who don't get XKCD should go watch Nyan Cat on youtube. OK Nyan Cat isn't funny, but maybe the suggested links will be.
Please don't ruin the tiny remaining piece of the internet that is funny to the kind of people who built the internet, rather than the kind of people who spend their lives on it now.
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Mostly they just make me smile. I do understand them, but most of them do require a passing familiarity with advanced topics physics, chemistry or engineering. The bubblegum bit is obviously an homage to Roddy Piper in They Live. Today's requires that you know what a phase diagram is and understand that not all water ice is the same as some crystalline structures aren't possible without certain temperatures and pressures. Since VI is also the initials of Vanilla Ice, he stretched it to conclude that far greater rock bands require even higher pressures. Both are humorous, but I wouldn't break out in laughter.
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"David Bowie & Queen" is specifically a reference to the song Under_Pressure[^] which they recorded together in 1981.
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when it says "No flame wars" -- doesn't that mean you can't say "XKCD sucks"? 
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Poor old Tel! 
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Hi All,
Halfway through sorting my email this morningmy 8.1 desktop pops up s 'Your Windows 10 upgrade is ready' box, So my thinking was 'Oh good, I can upgrade while I am out later this afternoon' click the update later and start to get on with sorting my inbox, and not five mins later another box pops up while I'm sorting emails and talking on the phone to an agent (about an interview I had earlier in the week!) I get anoter nag box click not really paying attention and bang off it goes to upgrade to 10 leaving me wonder is it going to end in tears...
modified 6-Aug-15 7:42am.
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It's not a problem! You have a recent full disk image backup, don't you? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's the problem, I took one when I clicked upgrade a few weeks ago! but I was intending on running another before the upgrade. Having said that It has just finished forgive typing I am having to type this sitting a mile from my screen, oh Red lets have a look!
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This nearly happened to me too last week.
Any loss of files/programs?
Did it do an upgrade or a clean(total) install?
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I am using the machine now! I can't see its eaten anything, Visual Studio has moved sort of 2008 is in the M bit & 2013 is in the V bit. It also looks like the DOS (or command) prompt is back (or easier to find). The worst bit is I now Edge has replaced IE I will have to try to get my bookmarks back (I think I will carry on with Firefox!) so far so good 
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Awesome.
Maybe i'll upgrade this weekend
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Exactly the same boat (except that I was on W7.1). I too was caught out by the immediate install - I was even prepared by having another disc in the PC to do a final W7 backup onto. However, it looks like everything is OK so I'm creating a new backup with the W10 before I break it - that is still in progress. To my surprise, the new OS looks very acceptable and the learning curve is not as great as I had feared.
I was more than 1/2 expecting to have to do a clean install as W10 had failed to auto-update when it first came out. I had the usual helpful error code and was not convinced by the results of researching on the web which said to be patient and you will get a notification later telling you that it can now update. But my cynicism was unfounded.
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I have to agree, the update is/was smooth and faster than I was expecting but I really dislike having to find everything again. It seems to have kept of updated everything, the odd thing is I can now restore to Win 7 when this PC came with 8 Installed! 
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after spending few years in the IT industry now i got a chance to interview new candidates in my company. Basically, now my opinion will also taken into account by management in selecting new people. I would like to get some tips from you guys that apart from technical knowledge, what key points should i focus ? Till now i only gave interviews but did not take any.
Ravi Khoda
Humanity is the best religion and smile is the best medicine.
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Character is the most important quality you should look for when hiring someone. But get them to do the talking. Ask them about projects they have worked on. What did they like? What didn't they like? What did they learn?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Character is the most important quality you should look for when hiring someone
I thought that once, but changed my mind after two weeks of working with Captain Hook and Cruella du vil.
modified 6-Aug-15 7:31am.
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That would be fun. I usually try to turn the tables on them and let them do the talking. But yes, it's always better to pluck apart what the other side said instead of revealing too much yourself. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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