In Europe, the surname of Niklaus Wirth (inventor of the Pascal programming language) is pronounced “veert”; in the United States, it’s pronounced “worth.“
Thus, in Europe, he’s called by name; in the US he’s called by value.
Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
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Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#292An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first mathematician orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. "I don't serve half-beers" the bartender replies. "Excuse me?" Asks mathematician #2. "What kind of bar serves half-beers?" The bartender remarks. "That's ridiculous." "Oh c'mon" says mathematician #1 "do you know how hard it is to collect an infinite number of us? Just play along". "There are v…
Hey, it's not cool to steal jokes from /r/antiantijokes. I am a mod there (as evident from my username), and don't appreciate this. The joke is hilarious though.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#293I don't understand why people find DNS so difficult, it’s just cache invalidation and naming things. source: https://twitter.com/jdub/status/739110670562557952?s=20
For context, I presume most of you have heard the old old joke that the two hard problems of computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. (Or the older joke that the two hard problems of computer science are cache invalidation and naming things.)
>There are two hard problems in computer science: naming
concurrency
>things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice this is my favourite so far!
Would you be kind and explain this joke please?
The waitress asked if they would ALL like dessert. If the first logician did NOT want dessert, then they could safely answer "no", because then it would not be the case that ALL of the logicians want dessert. Since they do not answer no, we can assume they do want dessert. The same follows for the second logician. The third (who also wants dessert) has heard their colleagues answer, and knows that if either of them did not want dessert they would have answered no, and can therefore now answer "yes, we would all like dessert".
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#295An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first mathematician orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. "I don't serve half-beers" the bartender replies. "Excuse me?" Asks mathematician #2. "What kind of bar serves half-beers?" The bartender remarks. "That's ridiculous." "Oh c'mon" says mathematician #1 "do you know how hard it is to collect an infinite number of us? Just play along". "There are v…
An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar, where a beer costs 3$.
The first mathematician orders a beer.
The second mathematician orders two beers.
The third mathematician orders three beers.
"Oh, I see where this is going" says the bartender and pays a quarter to the first mathematician. "This should cover your check, then."
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#296A PM and an engineer walk into a meeting room to discuss why the feature request cannot be implemented with their microservice architecture:
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#297Three logisticians just finished dinner, and the waitress comes up and asks "do y'all want dessert?" The first logistician says "I don't know." The second also says "I don't know." The last says "yes, we would."
Forgive me for my ignorance, but I don't really understand this joke... Is it something to do with the first 2 not knowing the preference of the others? EDIT: never mind, this was also posted later in the thread and there's an explanation there.
If either of them didn't want dessert they would know that not all of them wanted dessert.
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#298This is my programming version of another joke I heard: A guy walks into a bar and sees a group of people. One of them says a number and the rest laugh. Then the next person says a number and everyone laughs again. "What are you doing?" he asks them. "We're telling each other jokes, but since we keep telling the same ones, we've assigned each a number and rather than telling the whole joke all over again, we can just…
Another new guy walks in and finds this friendly group explaining how they joke by number.
They encourage him to give it a try and he enthusiastically says "18".
Nobody laughed at all.
Crickets.
He asks the guy next to him, "isn't 18 funny?"
"Yes, but you have to know how to tell a joke."
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#299A doctor, an architect and a programmer talk about their professions. "Mine is the oldest", says the doctor, "as everybody knows God created Eve from the rib of Adam, and that's definitely a medical operation". "Right", says the architect, "but in fact architect is even older - it's definitely an architectural project to create the world from chaos". At this point programmer kicks back in the chair and gives friends…
You win this thread. All high quality jokes.
All not mine, and definitely old - but we're a big bunch, there are lots of programmers, and not everybody heard them :) .
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you be kind and explain this joke please?
The waitress asked if they would ALL like dessert. If the first logician did NOT want dessert, then they could safely answer "no", because then it would not be the case that ALL of the logicians want dessert. Since they do not answer no, we can assume they do want dessert. The same follows for the second logician. The third (who also wants dessert) has heard their colleagues answer, and knows that if either of them d…
thank you!