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Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

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post #94

(Not my joke) At a recent real-time Java conference, the participants were given an awkward question to answer: "If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible for the flight control software, how many of you would disembark immediately?" Among the forest of raised hands only one man sat motionless. When asked what he would do, he replied that he would be quite c…

I thought that 'real-time Java' was the joke

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

#402
post #369

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes you might want to know success though. So... status = destroyCity(&city); This way, because assumingely we may mutate city in some way we’ll still have what comes after to examine, we didn’t pass the name or Od of the city, but the location itself. And we’ll know if overall our destruction worked. It’s also better if you code to MIRSA destruction.

Because passing the city by copy is way too expensive and won't destroy the original city anyway.

Depending on the language the ampersand could mean by copy or by reference. I suspect the commentor wants by reference, since they want to examine it later.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

#403
This isn't exactly a programming joke but considering how many of us physics majors become programmers, I think it works:

Heisenberg, Shrodinger and Ohm were driving down a highway when they get pulled over by a cop. The cop asks Heisenberg if he knew how fast he was going, as you can surmise, he claimed he didn't know because he knew exactly where they were. The cop, finding this suspicious (and because this is not USA and 4th amendment does not apply) decides to search the car. He comes back to the front and asks them why they have a dead cat in the trunk, Shrodinger responds, "because you opened the trunk you fool!!". The cop is now irritated and promptly moves to arrest all three. Ohm, resisted.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

#405
post #156

A programmer walks into a bar and ask for a drink. The bartender says I'll give you a drink if you tell me a programmer joke. And he says: a programmer walks into a bar and ask for a drink. The bartender says I'll give you a drink if you tell me a programmer joke. And he says: a programmer walks into a bar and ask for a drink. So he gives the guy a drink, so he gives the guy a drink, so he gives the guy a drink.

This recurs until the programmers runs out of stacks

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

#407
post #156

A programmer walks into a bar and ask for a drink. The bartender says I'll give you a drink if you tell me a programmer joke. And he says: a programmer walks into a bar and ask for a drink. The bartender says I'll give you a drink if you tell me a programmer joke. And he says: a programmer walks into a bar and ask for a drink. So he gives the guy a drink, so he gives the guy a drink, so he gives the guy a drink.

Now the programmer just waits till the stack blows up to get his free drink.

Well, that depends on the language they speak.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

#408

One of my all time favorites. Can’t remember where I first read it (Quora?), but it’s currently my top Google hit for “balloon programmer project manager joke”. [0] ============ A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend. I would meet him half an hour ago, but I…

It is telling developers choose a methaphor in which they position themselves at height, lowering themselves to establish communication with any rabble they encounter.

(Arrogant? Moi?)

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