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Programmers Hold Funerals for Old Code

Posted by samzenpus on from the sad-on-many-levels dept.

MacBrave writes "The AP has an interesting story about how the programming staff at an Ohio company are holding funerals for retired or 'killed' programs. I dunno, this sounds a little TOO geeky for my tastes......."

10 of 342 comments (clear)

  1. A special funeral scheduled for by PtrToNull · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BSD *ducks*

  2. Re:Do they cremate? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Help end the IT color scheme!

    http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/04/0 19228&tid=133&tid=156&tid=218

  3. Re:Do they cremate? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your issues with the color scheme are pretty trivial compared to the current MASSIVE ELECTION FRAUD!

    You can mod this down, but you can't silence the truth.

  4. Re:BASIC program flatline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOL, you just made my day!

  5. Re:Do they cremate? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    So if George W. Bush wins, I will sit down, and I will cry. I will cry for my children, who will most certainly face a military draft, and I will cry for my country, because I believe that America can, and must, do better than George W. Bush.

    Wil Wheaton.

  6. LOL AT KERRY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.lolatkerry.com/

  7. Re:Do they cremate? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Allow me to introduce you to one of the many great features of being a registered user. It's called, "the ability to turn off signatures!"

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  8. Re:Do they cremate? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, I for one welcome our God-Willed, Internets-spelling, Halliburton-Profiting, Pretzel-choking, Freedom-Fry-renaming Overlords and now is good time to blame/kill all the bastards that voted for Kodos - you were supposed to vote for KERRY you morons! DOH!

  9. Re:Does this count? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Well, we got suspicious, so one lunch hour we snuck out and went over to the boss's house to check around the shrubs.

    Well, checking around the shrubs is unfortunately a thing that nowadays less and less Americans do :-( Only 48%, actually...

  10. Re:The '/dev/null' idiom by lpangelrob2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Out of curiosity, did you sleep at a Holiday Inn Express that night?

    --
    -Rob
    Marriage doesn't have to suck!