XKCD

/ˌɛks keɪ siː ˈdiː/ · Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. The long-running webcomic by Randall Munroe known for humor about programming, math, science, internet culture, and nerd life. XKCD became a shared language in engineering because its jokes often capture technical absurdities with uncanny precision.

    In plain English: A famous webcomic that jokes about programming, science, and nerd culture.

    Example: "The standards meeting felt like the xkcd comic about adding one more standard to fix the problem."

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