The tale of Sir P

As I've said before, I love it when programmers have a sense of humour.

At work we have a "release notes" page to keep track of people who have modified what in our code. Today I saw this:

(sorry for the small size, click to enlarge)

At the bottom we have the older integration by Sir P, titled "[MR16] Introduction to randomization for calls by Sir P" (he actually put his full name there, by the way). P is Polish, but is currently working with us in Penang. We were off work last Friday on the 16th of September for Malaysia Day, and it seems that a colleague in Krakow found something wrong with his code. Hence the later integration of "Fix for impressive development made by Sir P" :D

Okay, so it's nothing much, but it made my day!

Are you a human?

I just downloaded PDF Creator. Before I could download it, I had to prove that I wasn't a robot. I was directed to this page:


I find it pretty funny...and it's quite nice of them to take the time to make this rather humourous page. There was also an audio clip being played to tell me what to do (read the text on the right).

And as for the e-mail they sent me, it started like this:

Hello WP,

You're human, right?

[the rest of the message]

I think I've said it before, but I'll say it again: I love it when programmers (or in this case, website designers) have a sense of humour :D

Have a cup of JAVA

I used a Matlab function called gridfit that I found online (Matlab file sharing). I just modified my program to use the 'tilesize' argument, which is supposed to speed up lengthy calculations, and guess what? Gridfit gave me a pop-up message that said "Relax and have a cup of JAVA. Its my treat."


I love programmers who have a sense of humour. :D Remember "sanity checks"? :P

(I'll link the "sanity checks" article later...when I remember!)

Edit: Oops...I just realized that I didn't post "sanity checks". -_- It was in one of my saved items...

Anyway, here's the story: In a program I was going through, there was a block of code that was commented as

// sanity checks

That's where they perform all the checks necessary to make sure that the user didn't give any bad inputs that will "kill" the program! lol