this could be taken the wrong way

[cellio]

In context this made perfect sense. Out of context, I'm glad no managers were walking by at the time.

"Well, if you don't want to do incest, nepotism will work."

(A coworker needed to cons up a relationship diagram with doubly-linked nodes, like a spouse who's also a sibling or a child who's also an employee...)

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[tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com]

I regularly encounter job applicants who describe one of the key differences between Java and C++ by saying "Java takes care of memory allocation for you so you don't need to think about it."

Less often, I run into Java programmers who talk about "consing up" structures in the course of solving a graph traversal example, or some such. They never, ever refer to garbage collection as something that means "they don't have to think" about how their code uses memory.