Nerd humor

[bmah]

From one of my co-workers on my work's Slack:

I've been doing a lot of regex puzzles lately and watching space stuff. Was thinking about having a "\sX" shirt made.

Bruce.

 

[favo]

/ X/ or /[ ]X/ would be more accurate.

 

[thecloud]

0x20 0x58

 

[TEG]

And old favorite...
Q: Why do programmers get Halloween and Christmas mixed up?
A: Because Oct(31)=Dec(25)

 

[thecloud]

There are only 10 types of people in the world, if you think in binary terms.

 

[ecarfan]

I've been doing a lot of regex puzzles lately and watching space stuff. Was thinking about having a "\sX" shirt made.

I’m not quite that nerdy. Explanation?

 

[KerryOH]

Actual entries in a dictionary of data processing terms circa 1980:

Endless Loop: see Loop Endless


Loop Endless: see Endless Loop

 

[ggr]

I’m not quite that nerdy. Explanation?

\s in a regular expression matches any white space.

 

[bmah]

\s in a regular expression matches any white space.

And regular expressions are a computer / mathematical language for matching patterns of characters within text.

Forwarding this thread to my co-worker.

Bruce.

 

[ecarfan]

\s in a regular expression matches any white space.

Okay thanks. Could you please use non-programming words to explain “\sX” to me?

Does “X” stand for “SpaceX”?

If so, does “\sX” translate to “Everything is about SpaceX” or something similar?

While I’m not a programmer, I can still enjoy things like xkcd.com but I’m not grasping Bruce’s intended meaning of “\sX”.

 

[WarpedOne]

Regular expression are the worst thing to come after sliced bread ...

 

[bmah]

While I’m not a programmer, I can still enjoy things like xkcd.com but I’m not grasping Bruce’s intended meaning of “\sX”.

You could pronounce "\sX" as "space X" (although a couple of other people upthread suggested regular expressions that might be a better fit).

It wasn't my joke for the record....came from one of my coworkers who is a SpaceX enthusiast.

Bruce.

 

[ecarfan]

You could pronounce "\sX" as "space X"

Okay...I guess I need to Google what a “regex puzzle” is so I can get the joke...

I've been doing a lot of regex puzzles lately and watching space stuff. Was thinking about having a "\sX" shirt made.

So I went to Regex Crossword and now have to try doing a puzzle tonight.

 

[wdolson]

Okay thanks. Could you please use non-programming words to explain “\sX” to me?

Does “X” stand for “SpaceX”?

If so, does “\sX” translate to “Everything is about SpaceX” or something similar?

While I’m not a programmer, I can still enjoy things like xkcd.com but I’m not grasping Bruce’s intended meaning of “\sX”.

The programming language C and Unix (Linux is essentially a clone of Unix) evolved together and both use regular expressions. You might use something like \s when searching for any white space character (tab, space, etc.) in a string. \sX would technically translate to "white space X", but could translate to SpaceX too. @thecloud above did SpaceX in ASCII (in hexadecimal using C and C++ format).

 

[ICUDoc]

wow. This thread is BEYOND nerdy!

 

[wdolson]

wow. This thread is BEYOND nerdy!

I'm deep into C and C++ almost daily and I had never heard of regex puzzles. I had to look them up.

 

[bxr140]

Not related to the subject post in anything but spirit, this gave me a chuckle yesterday. Comes from a rando buzzfeed.

 

[adiggs]

Not related to the subject post in anything but spirit, this gave me a chuckle yesterday. Comes from a rando buzzfeed.

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My wife found this t-shirt and showed me a pic of it a month or 2 back. Our copy arrived and I'm wearing it at work today. It's been a hit among my colleagues.

They're gonna love the next one:

https://www.amazon.com/Velociraptor...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=7NX4MJV6GK099HREK254

 

[ecarfan]

While I’m not a programmer, I can still enjoy things like xkcd.com

This thread is getting pretty random, so in the spirit of all things just barely but not really SpaceX related, here goes:

 

[ecarfan]

More barely SpaceX related material (Credit: Rocket Launch )