Gifts for computer scientists

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...

Isn'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...

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...

As we all know, hindsight is 20/20. This universally applicable wisdom can also be used to describe informatics, especially debugging (i.e. testing...

As 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...

We 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,...

Death, 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...

If 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...

For those of you who have comments regarding a source code: It was hard to write - it was meant to be hard to understand..

"Is your computer running low on disk space? Are old holiday pictures and text documents clogging your hard drive? Then simply put everything into ...

The 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...

Remember 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, ...

Ein Sysadmin schläft nicht

Penguins 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...

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...

Imagine 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...

Turns 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...

Many people see administrators as a kind of Matrix god. They sit in front of computers, typing away like mad in completely unspectacular looking te...

If there is any profession entirely deserving of their own drinking song, it’s programmers.The so-called “Programmer’s Drinking Song”, a modificati...

Anyone 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...

To understand recursion, you have to understand recursion first.

What'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...

There 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 ...

Imagine that you’ve just created a model that allows different technical systems to communicate with each other and that features different layers ...

Everyone who speaks a language with special characters knows the problem: Wrong encoding.

Home sweet home. Nobody likes to sit in front of strange computers where nothing is where it should be ;)

If 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...

One 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...

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...

When programmers have worked too long on a project, or when you ask them how the code they worked on actually functions, their favorite answer will...

Did you always calculate in binary? Even in primary school? This shirt tells everybody!

Let me consider this briefly...............well, NO !Do you always need a bit of time to come up with an appropriate answer when someone else is as...

The word 'hacker' in Japanese, on a T-shirt. The characters are pronounced "hakka" (with a short pause between the k: "hak...

Comments in code are massively overrated. Those who are in the know don't need extra explanations.

Something 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...

"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 ...