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Hi,
I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny for as long as it's been in print. Same now if not worse with Commit Strip.
I just come away with meh.
I think our industry is either YAY it's working or Damn it's still not. Either the people around us or the projects we are on. Neither of which are particularly humorous unless you are such a noob humanoid that breaking down others is funny.
Am I alone in this?
:Ron
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Yup. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Your point? Refuted[^]
veni bibi saltavi
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This one[^] should be in the FAQs for the QA section.
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I use that Bobby Tables reference a lot with teams when talking about defensive programming ideas. I find myself surprised how few people have come across it.
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Ron Anders wrote: I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny
You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert. 
He cracks me up. It's so real to life. He has dry humor, I like it.
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: You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert.
Here Here.
I worked in an office with a Pointy Haired Like manager,
and a guy who WAS TOTALLY WALLY. While some of the humor is a
little bizzare, I find I totally relate to it. My daughter is Alice.
So much so, that this Halloween, we are doing it Dilbert Themed.
I also think it is "irony" based humor. Just look at the "Watch that predicts when
people will die in a few minutes", and the companies decision to use Scare Tactic ads
(that confuse the users into thinking they may die). Ironic. Almost Realistically sad.
And funny because you know the watch will fail because the business can't figure out how
to get the ads to make revenue. (Truth portion was that good engineering can be undermined
by bad companies. Xerox and the Mouse, GUI, etc.)
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RyanDev wrote: Ron Anders wrote: I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny
You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert.
A sense of humor and a job. In my 20s, my friends would look through my Dilbert and complain that they just weren't funny. Then one of them got a real job (ie, not cleaning pools or making pizzas) and suddenly they started to understand Dilbert and why it's funny.
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I don't think they are meant to be always "hahahaha" funny
Sometimes you simply smile, or nod, or weep, or say, "yeah, that's life" ...
I'd rather be phishing!
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Are there any comic strips that are funny anymore? Either my sense of humor has been dulled by the years or the comic strips used to actually contain comedy which they don't anymore. I remember as a kid, enjoying all of the Sunday paper comic strips...except for Doonsbury, which I never understood. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Have you seen: http://smbc-comics.com/[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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kmoorevs wrote: Are there any comic strips that are funny anymore?
Define the parameters of 'funny'!
In general I think comic strips have always been intended to be 'wry' rather than laugh-out-loud funny. If you did indeed find them 'funny' in the past (and one must always beware of golden age memory syndrome) it may say more about the immaturity of your sense of humour then than the dullness of it now.
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Close to home (less of a daily hit than before) but funny to me.
Most of the tech cartoons poke arrogant fun at the lesser informed which to me is not funny but a sad commentary.
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We get older and the jokes aren't new (to us) anymore, so they stop being funny. I noticed that as I matured, the other comics got less funny and Doonsbury got funnier.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Apparently.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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They're just the same as comedy TV series, if you run them long enough it'll eventually get stale, then you need some new blood.
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How about:
The Help Desk at www.eviscerati.org/comics.
He hasn't updated in months, but you can just start at the beginning.
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well, i think the wally parts is worth reading, i love his procastination behaviour 
#region(start signature)
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
#endregion
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Possibly your English is not advanced enough to appreciate it; I don't mean this as a slight, just an observation based on my own experience. When I read "Tortilla Flat" in its original and my native language, English, I thought it was the funniest thing since Twain. When I recently re-read it in Spanish (which I understand pretty well, but not at a native speaker level), it was not nearly as funny.
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For the 20 years I worked for a largish company, Dilbert so closely mirrored what went on in that company it was like Scott worked there too. Now that I'm working at a startup I can still relate but mostly just from past experience.
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Please send a link to a video of you tripping over a network cable or something. I've been practicing my Viking guffaw, with some tips from my wife. 
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Dilbert, non Sequitor, and Unshelved are the only three I follow. All three range from outright hilarious to h'uh, I don't get it. Unshelved is Dilbert for librarians.
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Surprisingly, I'm largely over the "who moved my cheese?" phase. It's a bit of a mixed bag:
Pros
- Very stable
- Very light - went home without the beast like Dell for the first time last night and had to check I'd actually packed the machine. This is a biggie
- Some of the OS well thought through, it's pretty similar to Ubuntu's GUI TBH. Some processes are very smooth
- Bootup time, compared to win7 at least is insane
Cons
- Finder - a sort of windows file explorer-cum-search. Makes it unnecessarily difficult to perform basic tasks- can copy but not cut. Rename is insane - need to go to the "Get Info" popup and do it there, from the people who criticised MS for putting shut down in the start menu. No real sense of where you are in the file system - I want to be able to navigate a path. Sometimes I've dropped into a terminal because its easier
- Had to learn a silly amount of keyboard shortcuts - I'd want to learn most of these anyway to be fair, I know the equivalents in windows, but on for some tasks its quicker to take the hand of the mouse and use the keyboard.
- A keyboard that doesn't have a # (alt-4 on a mac) but does have a key for ± / § is not a keyboard designed for actual use. The physical keyboard is good otherwise
- Nobody, in the whole world, will need more than 2 USB ports. But thunderbolt with adapters - they need to be everywhere
I'm doing a lot of screenshot work preparing materials, this typifies my experience. No PrintScreen key, so i've had to learn the shortcut (cmd-shift-4) bad. Instead of printing the screen, I get a selection cursor to choose which area to capture good. The image is saved as a .png to my desktop bad apple, naughty apple, haughty apple - the filename defaults to a date and time, so I need to use either the terminal to move and rename, or scrabble round the UI.
I really don't understand what the hype is about - it's OK as a machine, I wouldn't pay that much for one. Using for (mostly JS) dev the experience is similar to working under a *NIX - pretty good, but again I'd rather save the cash and do just that.
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