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Re:Could Bill Gates write code? by BoppreH on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @01:08PM (#2629965)
This is called "code golf". You try to get the final program with the minimum of "shots" (bytes, lines, tokens or characters). It's amusingly addictive.

And I really hope you misplaced that hyphen in "cow-orkers".

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Re:Could Bill Gates write code? by Uhhrrr on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @01:39PM (#2630105)
Scott Adams popularized this construction, which suggests that one's co-workers are likely to ork cows (but he didn't originate it:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Coined_phrases).

EDIT: As far as I know, the definition of "ork" as a verb is left to the imagination.

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