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

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Post by ifdefdebug »

tsimionescu wrote: post #353

There's an old Joel on Software one related to string concatenation: Shlemiel gets a job as a street painter, painting the dotted lines down the middle of the road. On the first day he takes a can of paint out to the road and finishes 300 yards of the road. "That's pretty good!" says his boss, "you're a fast worker!" and pays him a kopeck. The next day Shlemiel only gets 150 yards done. "Well, that's not nearly as go…

Nice plot twist. I thought this one was going to be about optimizing the work that has to be done for one kopeck.

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

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

ehnto wrote: post #402
_kst_ wrote: post #369

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Your right; I meant by reference. I also said MISRA, which implies destruction by means of Sea monster.

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

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Post by oli5679 »

I really like the 'Jon Skeet facts' Stackoverflow page. It is Chuck Norris style facts about the legendary Stackoverflow answer contributor. Here is the top answer but I find many in the thread funny.

- Jon Skeet is immutable. If something's going to change, it's going to have to be the rest of the universe.

- Jon Skeet's addition operator doesn't commute; it teleports to where he needs it to be.

- Anonymous methods and anonymous types are really all called Jon Skeet. They just don't like to boast.

- Jon Skeet's code doesn't follow a coding convention. It is the coding convention.

- Jon Skeet doesn't have performance bottlenecks. He just makes the universe wait its turn. - Jon Skeet is the only person who has ranked higher than Jon Skeet in the SO all-time rep league.

- Users don't mark Jon Skeet's answers as accepted. The universe accepts them out of a sense of truth and justice

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact...

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

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Post by kinard »

i2shar wrote: post #391
avmich wrote: 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.

... (continued): The bartender gives him a puzzled look and says, "I didn't get it", to which the programmer responds "To understand recursion you must first understand recursion."

https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion

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

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Post by oumua_don17 »

mkarliner wrote: post #410
yeuxardents wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I, perhaps appropriately, improperly calculated their threshold for humor.

No, he did't deliver the joke fast enough.

And neither did he create a jira story for delivering the joke in the sprint!!!

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

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Post by [deleted] »

modeless wrote: post #360

Back when Chuck Norris facts were popular there were Jeff Dean facts, and this one is my favorite: Jeff Dean puts his pants on one leg at a time. But if he had more than two legs, you would see that his approach is actually O(log(n)). Oh, and do unintentional jokes count? Because AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean is pretty funny. https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/3.0.6.RELEASE_t...

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

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Post by cgriswald »

Jtsummers wrote: post #316
andi999 wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair Gore claimed he 'took the initiative in creating the internet'. His choice of words were not good I think.

If that were the only sentence in the statement, sure. But read the rest (which I believe you found if you can quote it) and it's clear what he's saying unless your objective is to misquote it and ridicule him.

I agree with GP. The statement made sense to Gore but not to the bulk of his audience. The missing context isn’t in the words that follow. It’s in understanding the role Gore actually took in the creation of the internet; specifically to be its economic, legal, and political champion for basically decades.
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