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Two problemsThursday 26 April 2012 Once upon a time, Jamie Zawinski said,
BTW: Jeffrey Friedl dug into the history and found that someone said it about awk before jwz said it about regular expressions! I seem to have developed a fascination for new variants of this joke, especially where the concept being referenced is important to the structure of the joke. For example, last June I said,
The other day I contributed,
It seems that Eiríkr Åsheim earlier had a similar one,
Making fun of Java is easy. Chris Lonnen said,
Floating point can be surprising. Tom Scott quipped,
Finally, this is not a technical joke, but is too true to leave out. Tom Dale said (and then deleted?),
Brendan Berg has a list of others if you want more... | |
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Some people when confronted with a problem think "I know, I'll quote jwz". Now everyone has a problem.
I’m fond of this variant:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll solve it." But the Void is inescapable and our short lives are meaningless.
Good stuff, thanks for sharing.
It's easy to see a political/libertarian version too: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, we'll just use government." Now they have a more powerful monopoly.
Some people when confronted with a desire to use pithy quotes in their presentations think "I know, I'll use something from Star Wars". Now two problems they have.
You've mentioned Mark Pilgrim's version before:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll quote Jamie Zawinski." Now they have two problems.
You forgot my favorite one, brought to my attention by a colleage:
and have a beer.“I know, I’ll use Python.” Now they
From:
http://sodiumdreams.com/post/19639754254/more-problems
My own (at least I haven't seen it anywhere) variant of the thread version:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I know, I'll use mutexes." Now they have
I felt inspired, here's mine:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I know, I'll use anagrams." Now they have bloom twerps.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I know, I'll watch Countdown." Now they have two conundrums.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I know, I'll use Shareware." Now they have two trials.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think: "I know, I'll use caching." Now they have one problems.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think: "I know, I'll think outside the box!" Now, they have 3.75 problems, an entirely new framework, and three dozen toll house cookies cooling in the kitchen.
I want to register that sxua version is gold.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I know, I'll use node!"
Now they have three more problems.Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I know, I'll use UTF8." Now they àﻂῦῇḢﻼɆµ↓ç°§ùÔ▄¦Ñﻂ.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I know, I'll ignore it." Now someone else has one more problem.
"I'll use PHP!" Now they have ("1 apple" + "1 orange") problems.
Well, if we're going to go there...
..."I'll use Perl!" Now they have more than one way to have more than one problem....
Some people, when confronted with a security problem, think "I know, I'll use capabilities." Now they can solve their problem but cannot convince anyone else they've solved it.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I know, I'll use delegations." Now their problem is a problem of their problem.
For those of you still interested, I encourage you to add your "two problems" to the (soon to be canonical!) site: http://twoproblems.com/
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