Antique Iron

An IBM 029 keypunch

This is a picture of a keypunch akin to the one I typed my first lines of codes on:













      PROGRAM SOMMA
C
C Calcola la somma di due
C numeri e stampa il 
C risultato 
C

      INTEGER A,B,SOMMA
      A=1
      B=3
      SOMMA=A+B
            PRINT(6,100),A,B,SOMMA
            STOP
 100      FORMAT(I4,1H+,I4,1H=,I4)

That' FORTRAN 66, Bay bee.

The twisted. The perverse. The developer.

Say you are running an android emulator for development reason and you want to copy some text to the (emulated) screen. That would be a CTRL+V on most platforms/applications.

But we developers have better ways, just:

# telnet localhost 5554
sms send 123123123 The text you want to copy
quit

You send an SMS to the phone, then in the emulator, open the message, copy the text, and paste wherever you want. Get it? Ain't that just beautiful?

This is the brain of developers laid bare for your wonderment. I kid  you not.

P.s: hats off to Stack Overflow for the tip