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What is software? (wrong answers only)

Ben Halpern on November 09, 2020

Entertain me.

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Pandita

software: the warm feeling of recently washed and dried clothes * - * (one of my favorite feelings)

girl carrying clothes

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Marian

OK, you win :D

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Ben Halpern

😅

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Mike Bybee • Edited

Speaking in otherworldly languages, summoning demons to do your bidding.
🐐🤘😈

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Stephen Gerkin

I think the only incorrect part of this statement is the assumption that the demons will do your bidding.

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Mike Bybee • Edited

*in the hope that they

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Stephen Gerkin • Edited

If they don't do your bidding, we can always just redefine what our bidding was in the first place! ;)

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Paweł Ludwiczak

"Did you try turning it off and on again?"

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Andrei Dascalu

Software is the pen name of the person who first said "it works on my machine"

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Andrei Dascalu

The result of mixing code with too much coffee

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Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli • Edited

Software is the synergising of customer expectation management with business focussed applications of core competencies, fungible markets, and green field explorations.

With software we are able to maximise the potentiation of event driven, blue-sky thinking to truly move forward into utilizing profit focussed attention capture effectiveness.

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Quintus Cardozo • Edited

It's like hardware but soft and flexible

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Fabian Holzer

The only reasonable way to make a decent living with dadaistic poetry.

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cubiclesocial

Top 6 software development languages in 2020

  1. HTML
  2. SQL
  3. XML
  4. JSON
  5. CSV
  6. PDF
  7. DOCX
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Albert Ulysses • Edited

It's when you unplug the modem from the socket, wait ten seconds, and plug it back in. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Winston Puckett

It's like softserve, but you put it on your body.

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ItsThatHexagonGuy

Software is one of 2 states that any man can be in

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Kushal Niroula

Just google it, it's not that HARD 😂🤣😁

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Robby Russell 🐘🚂

an illusion

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Ben Halpern

But is that wrong? 🤔

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Manuel Spigolon

It is a tool for lazy people, to become active ones instead

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Alain D'Ettorre

Software is the only legal drug they even pay you to use

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kwitgit

Typing orders at tiny chunks of poisoned sand to make them do math. Oh sorry... you said wrong answers.

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Mayuram Kausthub

Software is RAM's best friend

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Damla Köksal

Spaghetti.

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Rahul

Not an answer but 2min silence for software developers who are reading this.

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Justin Maximillian Kimlim

The opposite of hardware.

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Enrique Matta-Rodriguez

Software: Magical words that force wires and metal in a box to flip the on and off switch a lot really fast.

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Patrik Jajcay

As it's an opposite of hardware, it doesn't exist since you can't touch it.

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Andrei Dascalu

It's what gets me free access to coca cola, game consoles, coffee andbpizza

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AKASH KAINTURA

which feels soft when touched :)

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shadowtime2000

Thou speak'st wiser than thou art softly ware of

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Gordon Reeder

The department secretary?

Look, you said that you wanted wrong answers.

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Chad Wilson

Cotton plates, silk cups wool bowls.......