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

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Post by 8114Y »

Mechanical engineer walks around the field and thinks - there is a field. Flowers grows on field. Bees are gathering honey from flowers, doing good for flowers. Sun is shining over whole ecosystem making everything grow. There must be an engineer, who planned that. God exists! I believe in God!

Software engineers doesn't believes in God...

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Post by mPReDiToR »

dariusj18 wrote: post #88
lhorie wrote: post #78

Apparently a true story: A guy was walking around in a Ruby conference with a shirt that said ":sex" (which is read "sex symbol" in Ruby). Until someone asked him: "I don't get it. Why colon sex?"

C:##

As an Englishman, that symbol is "sharp" (or hash) which does two things. It makes the sex sound painful, then gives you a second smirk when you remember that it means "pound (£)" in American.

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

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Post by benjaminsuch »

mistersquid wrote: post #146

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…

As much as I like the joke and of course understand the analogy, I don't see how, from this conversation, the programmer comes to the conclusion that he has to solve the managers problem. The manager just asked, the programmer gave a technical correct answer and the manager replied that it doesn't help him. But at no point was the programmer expected to solve the managers problem nor has he blamed him so that it's "his fault".

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

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Post by code_duck »

twic wrote: post #548
gok wrote: post #220

C programmer is bartending. Someone says "get me a double whiskey, plus a root beer" Drinks arrive, customer asks: "hey why is there ice cream in this?" "I had to make it to a root beer float when you added it to the double"

There isn't any significance to the fact that it's a root beer, right? That was slightly distracting. I wonder if this would be cleaner if it was a 7-up. Do people make 7-up floats?

Coke floats, yes. Haven't encountered 7-up.

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

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

mistersquid wrote: post #146

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…

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 don't know where I am.

The man below produces a small object the shape of a teardrop colored a pleasing grayish blue that he proceeds to hold above his head in an inverted manner and then with a courtly, elegant bow indicates the ground the bottom of the teardrop is pointing at.

The man in the balloon flies off again, exclaiming under his breath "damn designers"

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