There’s a Dirty Unix Joke in the New York Times’ Facebook Backlash Story

http://www.geekosystem.com/dirty-unix-joke-nyt-facebook-nyu/

by notjon • 16 years ago

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hexis• 16 years ago

Anil Dash had a dirty Internet-Culture joke in the NYT a few years back (scroll down the article to the picture of Mr. Dash):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/fashion/thursdaystyles/02G...

orborde• 16 years ago

Who in his right mind wears a Goatse shirt?

dpritchett• 16 years ago

Click through to the NYT story and the original photo has been cropped to remove the joke!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/nyregion/12about.html?part...

aditya• 16 years ago

I always thought it was strange that you couldn't fsck a mounted volume... that's so unnatural, everyone knows you need to mount something to fsck it!

zerokyuu• 16 years ago

Honestly I'm a little disappointed they didn't check the manual pages for any of these commands.

In case it wasn't clear... (e.g. man grep, man touch, man fsck, man mount, etc.)

danielrhodes• 16 years ago

These guys have gotten more pictures taken of them than lines of code written.

aaronbrethorst• 16 years ago

It's called PDD, or Photo Driven Development. It's the next logical step from TDD and BDD.

jacquesm• 16 years ago

If they do half as good a job at coding as they do at marketing they're on a home-run.

The amount of free publicity they've gotten carries a huge risk though, which is that people will be over-expecting, probably leading to them being scolded for under-delivering. The general feeling seems to be that these 4 are going to roll out a distributed facebook by September first or so. I've pulled a few all nighters in my life, I think they're not quite aware yet of how difficult this really is.

I'm loathe to discourage them though, figure that plenty of people succeeded simply because they didn't know that what they were doing was impossible.

conanite• 16 years ago

Another way to enjoy unix commands is to observe their witty output:

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix.errors.html

papachito• 16 years ago

The full version:

updatedb; locate; talk; date; cd; strip; look; touch; finger; unzip; uptime; gawk; head; apt-get install condom; mount; fsck; more; yes; yes; yes; more; umount; apt-get remove --purge diaphram; make clean; sleep

There’s a Dirty Unix Joke in the New York Times’ Facebook Backlash Story

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