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Sometimes there’s nothing better than a gratuitously geeky joke to raise a smile. Today’s XKCD certainly provides just that.
As if the set-up, above, wasn’t funny enough, the punchline is hidden in XKCD’s al-text:
<A>: Like </a>this.
If that makes you laugh, great! If it riles you, sorry! And if you don’t get it, learn some HTML. [XKCD]
How to Annoy Generation Y
How Developers Coded in 1985
How To Develop Film With Red Wine
How to annoy a web developer 101:
Type the phrase “when are we going to get an edit button?” and repeat.
when are we going to get an edit button?
Yeah, when are we going to get an efid button?
When are we going to get an edit button?*
*This will probably annoy thye editor too.
Given that Giz UK has had a couple of weird formatting bugs in it’s posts lately this is quite ironic.
: Like this.
Is a web developer like a web designer?
One’s purely a techie (HTML, CSS, Java, etc.), the other’s a designer with tech skills (graphics, typography, layout, UX, etc.).
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That wasn’t the reply I wanted.
I was trying to annoy any gizmodo web developers.
(I am a web designer)
Apologies, my subtlety detection skills must have been lacking…
Not a problem. My trolling skills were lacking that day to.
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I’ve found that the bestest way to annoy a web developer is to ask them to do what they’re paid for in budget & on time.
But after a brief burst of annoyance they lol their fucking arses off.
You can annoy a web developer by stealing the site’s passwords.