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+title: "10 Kinds of People"
+subtitle: "... and some 7 billion more kinds."
+
+We've all read the joke.
+
+> There are 10 types of people in the world... Those who understand
+> binary and those who don't."
+
+Or the one people who pride themselves to be a bit more nerdy than the
+nerdy ones prefer:
+
+> There are 10 types of people in the world ... Those who understand
+> hexadecimal and 15 others."
+
+There's even a quote about this on [bash.org](http://bash.org/?top).
+
+> kow: "There are 10 types of people in the world... those who
+> understand binary and those who don't."
+
+> SpaceRain: That's only 2 types of people, kow.
+
+> SpaceRain: STUPID
+
+I'll tell you; this SpaceRain dude has a point.
+
+In fact, I'd say:
+
+### There are 10 types of people in the world... Those who doesn't know how to communicate a number base properly, and nine types who do.
+
+As [xkcd](http://xkcd.com/169/) put it:
+
+> Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood is
+> not cleverness.
+
+Of course, "In base 2 there are 10 types of people in the world..."
+isn't very funny, but - in all fairness - the original joke isn't very
+funny anymore either. However, "There are 010 types of people in the
+world... Those who can use google to look up octal numbering conventions
+and 7 others", is a bit funny to my fancy, even if it's a very strange
+way of classifying people.
+
+Maybe we all should just move on from this joke or at least bring it to
+the next level.
+
+I'll end this with a version that is actually funny and which I regret
+to say I will probably never find the original source of.
+
+> "There are 2 types of people in the world... Those who can extrapolate
+> from incomplete data"
+
+Also, I recently added commenting to the blog posts. Please, fill me in
+on your versions.