Computer scientist shirts and hoodies
Nobody likes to fix the mistakes another person has made due to incompetence, laziness or simply by accident. But when you yourself are that person...
View full detailsThis year's line-up of the Hacken Open Air is probably the best one ever: The headliners sudo's Priest and Gnutallica will set the Black Hat Stage ...
View full detailsIsn't it amazing what the human brain is capable of? Not only has it secured us our place at the top of the food chain, it can also adapt extremely...
View full detailsAs we all know, hindsight is 20/20. This universally applicable wisdom can also be used to describe informatics, especially debugging (i.e. testing...
View full detailsImagine that you’ve just created a model that allows different technical systems to communicate with each other and that features different layers ...
View full detailsAs we all know, silent waters run deep. While software development does not exactly have anything to do with water, the basic principle of the sayi...
View full detailsWhat's the most popular answer to calls at the IT support hotline? Of course the sentence: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?&q...
View full detailsRemember way back... when to be able to load programmes and games on a C64, you had to type in a special command first? For the sake of nostalgia, ...
View full detailsIf one were to believe the genre legends Run DMC, hip-hop really does have one thing in common with informatics: It's tricky! While the trio of Run...
View full detailsIf there is any profession entirely deserving of their own drinking song, it’s programmers.The so-called “Programmer’s Drinking Song”, a modificati...
View full details"Is your computer running low on disk space? Are old holiday pictures and text documents clogging your hard drive? Then simply put everything into ...
View full detailsGiven that the binary system is widely used in IT (and thus in most parts of our lives), surprisingly few people actually understand the combinatio...
View full detailsAhh, nothing beats a well-organized home, right? Everything exactly where it belongs, all the books organized by the astronomical sign of the autho...
View full detailsDeath, War, Pestilence and Hunger - one does not need to be familiar with the works of Albrecht Dürer to recognize this unholy quartet: The Four Ho...
View full detailsSomething you may not know is that computer scientists have to deal with all sorts of trees. Quite often, the most common being the so-called binar...
View full detailsFor those of you who have comments regarding a source code: It was hard to write - it was meant to be hard to understand..
Did you know that you can make a lot of money with compression? And we’re not talking about the inventors of WinRAR (who are most likely still wait...
View full detailsThe good ol'’ floppy disk!How we loved you when you were our go-to portable, long-term memory solution. We shared so many happy years…!Not tha...
View full detailsThere are a few unwritten rules everybody in IT should always follow. And trust us, if you decide to ignore these rules, you definitely won't want ...
View full detailsAnyone who has ever worked in IT support will know what the following situation is like: "Can you help me? My computer crashed and I can't get to a...
View full detailsImagine arriving at the office, sitting down at your desk in order to do all the important bug fixes , whilst sipping your coffee... when all of t...
View full detailsIf you don't get this one, you belong to the rest... ;-) If there's a slight smile on your face though, you should probably think about h...
View full detailsTurns out that most nerds do actually care about nature and know a lot about the evil “outside world”. So much so that even parts of the Unix archi...
View full detailsProgrammers who use pointers should be careful because they aren't far away from hell ;) At least that's what the 2nd of the 10 commandme...
View full detailsOne nice aspect of mastering a language that not everyone understands is the possibility of being able to make a lot of inside jokes. This is espec...
View full detailsWe can all agree that it can be pretty hard keeping up with all the latest social customs. One minute you shake a person's hand when you meet them,...
View full detailsComments in code are massively overrated. Those who are in the know don't need extra explanations.
Anyone who's ever developed a program knows that just because it works on one person's computer, doesn't means it works on another! Given the almos...
View full detailsAll users of a unix-like operating systems (Linux, Mac, BSD, etc) should know what a fork bomb is. A fork bomb is a program which creates so many c...
View full detailsEveryone who speaks a language with special characters knows the problem: Wrong encoding.
Basically, programming has a lot in common with Lego: on the one hand, it's worth starting at a young age (keyword: practice makes perfect), and on...
View full detailsAt times, we reach the point where our brain just refuses to function properly and even the simplest tasks are impossible to complete. Most program...
View full detailsMany people see administrators as a kind of Matrix god. They sit in front of computers, typing away like mad in completely unspectacular looking te...
View full detailsPenguins are cool, pretty goofy and probably the only birds in the world who forgot to be birds. No other animal looks funnier waddling in the snow...
View full details"Too many cooks spoil the broth!" - a principle that not only applies in the kitchen but also the world of IT. When it comes to identifying former ...
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