24 Aug 2008, 6:50 pm
This one is so true that I might cry:
24 Aug 2008, 7:40 pm
What was the alt text on that one?
24 Aug 2008, 9:32 pm
Here are three good reasons
Okay, these are software design– and computer science–related jokes, but they're just not funny. To be funny, something must evince laughter. Do these examples evince laughter for you? Merely relating to a subject matter doesn't make something funny.
Do you think this is funny?
I don't, and I just made it. Of course, if it were on xkcd, people would be laughing until their sides ached because somehow stuff that's not funny is funny when it gets a random strong of letters attached to it as the name of the webcomic.
I find the image you made to be very funny, actually. The fact that it's supposed to be an example of something that isn't funny just makes it even more funny.
Different people find different things funny. That's just how it is.
24 Aug 2008, 9:45 pm
26 Aug 2008, 7:27 pm
26 Aug 2008, 7:42 pm
That really does sound like it could have been lifted from a youtube comment page.
I'll take my math jokes where I can get them.
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29 Aug 2008, 2:22 am
I think xkcd is hilarious. NeantHumain people are going to find it funny or they won't. No amount of analyzing it or trying to convince them otherwise is going to make it change.
For me it is the combination of randomness and ridiculousness that makes it funny for me. His irrational fear of raptors makes me chuckle too.
Like this one, it has all 3 things I find funny about xkcd.
29 Aug 2008, 5:06 am
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29 Aug 2008, 7:15 am
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29 Aug 2008, 9:16 pm
No one expects a discussion of the algorithmic complexity of the traveling salesman problem to be interrupted by mentioning eBay and "Shut the hell up", which is why people find xkcd humorous.
Okay, yes, they took the traveling salesman problem literally with the salesman using eBay, and that's unexpected, but it's still not funny. Here is another violation of expectation:
I don't think that's funny. Do you?
Well, it does have potential! For something like this for example:
30 Aug 2008, 12:33 am
For me it is the combination of randomness and ridiculousness that makes it funny for me. His irrational fear of raptors makes me chuckle too.
Like this one, it has all 3 things I find funny about xkcd.
I concede: That one is pretty funny!
30 Aug 2008, 5:25 am
No one expects a discussion of the algorithmic complexity of the traveling salesman problem to be interrupted by mentioning eBay and "Shut the hell up", which is why people find xkcd humorous.
Okay, yes, they took the traveling salesman problem literally with the salesman using eBay, and that's unexpected, but it's still not funny. Here is another violation of expectation:
I don't think that's funny. Do you?
Well, it does have potential! For something like this for example:
Well.... that works for me.... even including the incompleteness, the 0/1 divide, the reverse order and the addition of the extra "R" in the coined word "unconfuscated".
-100 1 do i negate loop
30 Aug 2008, 11:48 am
I love XKCD.
For example I think all programmers can relate to this situation. 
L.
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30 Aug 2008, 12:31 pm
30 Aug 2008, 2:27 pm
For example I think all programmers can relate to this situation.
L.
Hmm, I can't. I've never been tempted to put a goto anywhere. Actually, my IDE makes refactoring code very easy, almost too easy.
