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Formato ISO 8601 (xkcd) » xkcd | xkcd.com

¿Qué pasaría si…?, de Randall Munroe » lapiedradesisifo.com | lapiedradesisifo.com

This is a weekly roundup of awesome DEV comments that you may have missed. You are welcome and… » DEV Community | dev.to

xkcd: Transformación de matrices [ING] » xkcd | xkcd.com

I’ve seen Spaceballs many times, and there’s one joke in it that’s always gone over my head. I couldn’t understand why it was in there or what it meant until this past week when it finally dawned o… » Deja Reviewer | dejareviewer.com

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Los Simpsons han formado parte de nuestra vida y nuestra cultura. ¿Conoces cuál es la intro de Los Simpson más original? ¡Descúbrela! » José Muñoz Salvatierra | supercurioso.com

Ever wondered why programmers are known as nightbirds? Why we stay up all night? Because it allows us to get into the zone, it allows us to focus on one thing and not have to worry about being interupted by someone - because they are all asleep. It’s a long stretch of the day where no one is up and no one is calling or trying to talk to us. It’s a great time to program, and think. ...

The Futurama writers had a rule that the show’s more obscure jokes couldn’t be central to the plot. So the background is stuffed with nods to mathematics, science, history, and literature. Numbers are often translated into math problems (instead of Studio 54, the crew visits Studio 1²2¹3³). Robot information is conveyed in binary (”The Honking” references the ”Redrum” scene in The Shining, when Bender is perplexed to see ”0101100101” written in blood on a wall, but then realizes that it reads ”1010011010” in the mirror, a series of digits that translates to ”666”). And of course, there’s the Alienese language. But the writers also built entire episodes around the Banach-Tarski paradox and the premise of three-dimensional characters entering two-dimensional space. ...

We’ve all heard the ”official conspiracy theory” of the Death Star attack. We all know about Luke Skywalker and his ragtag bunch of rebels, how they mounted a foolhardy attack on the most powerful, well-defended battle station ever built. And we’ve all seen the video over, and over, and over, of the one-in-a-million shot that resulted in a massive chain reaction that not just damaged, but completely obliterated that massive technological wonder. ...