{"id":26,"date":"2004-11-03T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T19:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/archives\/26-guid.html"},"modified":"2006-01-26T18:00:44","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T22:00:44","slug":"its-official-programmers-get-wierd-when-bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/its-official-programmers-get-wierd-when-bored\/","title":{"rendered":"Its official: Programmers get wierd when bored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These programmers actually take the time to printout old source code and then bury it on a hill. They must have been seriously bored to think of something like this..<\/p>\n<p>Story:<br \/>\n<b>Programmers Hold Funerals for Old Code<\/b><br \/>\nWed Nov 3, 7:29 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>DAYTON, Ohio &#8211; Among the tiny graves on Blocker Hill, the wind echoes with the tortured cries of computer programmers. Beneath the eight grave markers, and perhaps in a rumored unmarked grave nearby, lie reams of paper printouts of code for software that has left this mortal operating system. <\/p>\n<p>The cemetery is a quirky tradition among the programmers at LexisNexis, which provides online legal and business information. Rather than simply delete programs that are retired or replaced, they print them out for a proper send-off not always with fond regards.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story: <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=528&#038;ncid=528&#038;e=10&#038;u=\/ap\/20041103\/ap_on_hi_te\/computer_cemetery\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These programmers actually take the time to printout old source code and then bury it on a hill. They must have been seriously bored to think of something like this.. Story: Programmers Hold Funerals for Old Code Wed Nov 3, 7:29 AM ET DAYTON, Ohio &#8211; Among the tiny graves on Blocker Hill, the wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-newsarticles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}