54 lines
1.7 KiB
Markdown
54 lines
1.7 KiB
Markdown
layout: post
|
|
title: "10 Kinds of People"
|
|
subtitle: "... and some 7 billion more kinds."
|
|
|
|
We've all read the joke.
|
|
|
|
> There are 10 types of people in the world... Those who understand
|
|
> binary and those who don't."
|
|
|
|
Or the one people who pride themselves to be a bit more nerdy than the
|
|
nerdy ones prefer:
|
|
|
|
> There are 10 types of people in the world ... Those who understand
|
|
> hexadecimal and 15 others."
|
|
|
|
There's even a quote about this on [bash.org](http://bash.org/?top).
|
|
|
|
> kow: "There are 10 types of people in the world... those who
|
|
> understand binary and those who don't."
|
|
|
|
> SpaceRain: That's only 2 types of people, kow.
|
|
|
|
> SpaceRain: STUPID
|
|
|
|
I'll tell you; this SpaceRain dude has a point.
|
|
|
|
In fact, I'd say:
|
|
|
|
### There are 10 types of people in the world... Those who doesn't know how to communicate a number base properly, and nine types who do.
|
|
|
|
As [xkcd](http://xkcd.com/169/) put it:
|
|
|
|
> Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood is
|
|
> not cleverness.
|
|
|
|
Of course, "In base 2 there are 10 types of people in the world..."
|
|
isn't very funny, but - in all fairness - the original joke isn't very
|
|
funny anymore either. However, "There are 010 types of people in the
|
|
world... Those who can use google to look up octal numbering conventions
|
|
and 7 others", is a bit funny to my fancy, even if it's a very strange
|
|
way of classifying people.
|
|
|
|
Maybe we all should just move on from this joke or at least bring it to
|
|
the next level.
|
|
|
|
I'll end this with a version that is actually funny and which I regret
|
|
to say I will probably never find the original source of.
|
|
|
|
> "There are 2 types of people in the world... Those who can extrapolate
|
|
> from incomplete data"
|
|
|
|
Also, I recently added commenting to the blog posts. Please, fill me in
|
|
on your versions.
|