half-jokingly

Also, everything Jeff Bezos half-jokingly predicted about drone delivery services will come to pass...

Not surprising, considering that, recently, Putin has implied, half-jokingly, that the Internet is a CIA plot (Yandex stock fell almost instantly as that happened).

Wayyyy back in 2007 I half-jokingly made a prediction about the future of computing.

Actually yes, I know an economist (working for the BCE) half-jokingly preaching it.

So I ask this only half-jokingly - at this point, what self-respecting engineer would continue to work at Google, Apple, or these other firms?

I read once a rant that argued half-jokingly that TCP is useless, because in the end the services it offers are redone at application level.

You know, some time ago, I half-jokingly put forth the idea to some friends, that chromatic aberration will become the new lens flare, i.e.

I have one friend who spends all his free time contributing to Rust projects, and has half-jokingly considered quitting his job in order to spend even more time using the language.

> I read once a rant that argued half-jokingly that TCP is useless, because in the end the services it offers are redone at application level.

When there was some discussion over mandatory Danish lessons for employees at my university, a few people half-jokingly suggested that if the goal is to integrate foreigners into Denmark, then it would make more sense to start with mandatory bicycle lessons, since this is one of the bigger integration failures.

In the late '00s I took a few years off programming to do a degree in Classics, and I kept telling myself half-jokingly that if Perl 6 shipped I'd know I'd been away too long.

At a previous company, we had a competitor who we were trying quite hard to beat to market with a particular feature, and it was (half-jokingly, and not by me) suggested that we send them false reports of subtle but deadly bugs to occupy their time.

It was common for people back in this time frame (the events of Cuckoo's Egg) to half-jokingly make "Echelon keyword" lists where they would insert dubious words as postscripts in email or on usenet posts.

(I sometimes half-jokingly refer to arguments of the sort "but without copyright/patent incentives, X wouldn't exist" as "the Linux-doesn't-exist theory of intellectual property").

I forgot everything.” I answered (only half-jokingly), “Of course not, you are my only student with a normal attention span!” Even though I observe 400+ students in my music school, can it be just coincidence?

Someone asked me why I used Linux and I half-jokingly answered, "Because then I can be pretentious about hating both Windows and OSX!" Tis human nature, I guess, always trying to find a way to distinguish yourself from the masses.

[1] Half-jokingly, you could summarize this as a rabidly liberal ivy-educated tenure-track professor, as those are the people with whom I've had the most chemistry.