((11900 . "You cannot just paste code with no understanding of what is going on and expect it to work.") (11901 . "You can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, Retardo!") (11902 . "You said it didn't work, but you didn't say what it would have done if it *had* worked.") (11903 . "What are you really trying to accomplish here?") (11904 . "Who the fuck cares which one is faster?") (11905 . "Now is the time in our program where you look at the manual.") (11906 . "Look at the error message! Look at the error message!") (11907 . "Looking for a compiler bug is the strategy of LAST resort. LAST resort.") (11908 . "Premature optimization is the root of all evil.") (11909 . "Bad programmer! No cookie!") (11910 . "I see you omitted $! from the error message. It won't tell you what went wrong if you don't ask it to.") (11911 . "You wrote the same thing twice here. The cardinal rule of programming is that you never ever write the same thing twice.") (11912 . "Evidently it's important to you to get the wrong answer as quickly as possible.") (11913 . "Gee, I don't know. I wonder what the manual says about that?") (11914 . "Well, no duh. That's because you ignored the error message, dimwit.") (11915 . "Only Sherlock Holmes can debug the program by pure deduction from the output. You are not Sherlock Holmes. Run the fucking debugger already.") (11916 . "Always ignore the second error message unless the meaning is obvious.") (11917 . "Read. Learn. Evolve.") (11918 . "Well, then get one that *does* do auto-indent. You can't do good work with bad tools.") (11919 . "No. You must believe the ERROR MESSAGE. You MUST believe the error message.") (11920 . "The error message is the Truth. The error message is God. ") (11921 . "It could be anything. Too bad you didn't bother to diagnose the error, huh?") (11922 . "You don't suppress error messages, you dumbass, you PAY ATTENTION and try to understand them.") (11923 . "Never catch a signal except as a last resort.") (11924 . "Well, if you don't know what it does, why did you put it in your program?") (11925 . "Gosh, that wasn't very bright, was it?") (11926 . "That's like taking a crap on someone's doorstep and then ringing the doorbell to ask for toilet paper.") (11927 . "A good approach to that problem would be to hire a computer programmer.") (11928 . "First get a book on programming. Then read it. Then write the program.") (11929 . "First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.") (11930 . "Would you like to see my rate card?") (11931 . "I think you are asking the wrong question here.") (11932 . "Holy cow.") (11933 . "Because it's a syntax error.") (11934 . "Because this is Lisp, not C.") (11935 . "Because this is Lisp, not Perl.") (11936 . "Because that's the way it is.") (11937 . "Because.") (11938 . "If you have `some weird error', the problem is probably with your frobnitzer.") (11939 . "Because the computer cannot read your mind. Guess what? I cannot read your mind *either*.") (11940 . "You said `It doesn't work'. The next violation will be punished by death.") (11941 . "Of course it doesn't work! That's because you don't know what you are doing!") (11942 . "Sure, but you have to have some understanding also.") (11943 . "Ah yes, and you are the first person to have noticed this bug since 1987. Sure.") (11944 . "Yes, that's what it's supposed to do when you say that.") (11945 . "Well, what did you expect?") (11946 . "Perhaps you have forgotten that this is an engineering discipline, not some sort of black magic.") (11947 . "You know, this sort of thing is amenable to experimental observation.") (11948 . "Perhaps your veeblefitzer is clogged.") (11949 . "What happens when you try?") (11950 . "Now you are just being superstitious. ") (11951 . "Your question has exceeded the system limit for pronouns in a single sentence. Please dereference and try again.") (11952 . "In my experience that is a bad strategy, because the people who ask such questions are the ones who paste the answer into their program without understanding it and then complain that it `does not work'.") (11953 . "Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work. ") (11954 . "If your function is written correctly, it will handle an empty array the same way as a nonempty array.") (11955 . "When in doubt, use brute force.") (11956 . "Well, it might be more intuitive that way, but it would also be useless.") (11957 . "Show the code.") (11958 . "The bug is in you, not in Lisp.") (11959 . "Cargo-cult.") (11960 . "So you threw in some random punctuation for no particular reason, and then you didn't get the result you expected. Hmmmm.") (11961 . "How should I know what is wrong when I haven't even seen the code? I am not clairvoyant.") (11962 . "How should I know how to do what you want when you didn't say what you wanted to do?") (11963 . "It's easy to get the *wrong* answer in O(1) time.") (11964 . "I guess this just goes to show that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it.") (11999 . "You are a stupid asshole. Shut the fuck up.") (12000 . "Looking for a compiler bug is the second-to-last resort. The last resort is blaming bad RAM. It's never the correct hypothesis.") (12017 . "It doesn't need to be portable, it just needs to work on your system."))