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

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Post by a_bored_husky » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 12:01 AM UTC

"The plural of regex is regrets"

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

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Post by hpb42 » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 12:07 AM UTC

sloaken wrote: post #42

johnthuss wrote: post #7

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.

The real answer is: Those who don't understand binary Those that think its a binary joke Those who understand trinary no no it is: Those who don't understand binary Those that think its a binary joke Those that think its a trinary joke Those who understand base 4 ...

One can generalize this joke and use mathematical Induction to tell infinite jokes.

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

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Post by chrisbennet » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 12:45 AM UTC

Security is "S" in IOT.

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

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Post by chrisbennet » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 12:50 AM UTC

!false

It's funny because it's true.

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

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Post by karmakaze » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 1:48 AM UTC

musicale wrote: post #50

If automotive transportation had advanced as fast as computing then cars would travel at the speed of sound, run completely on solar power, and cost about 50 cents. And every day thousands of them would drive to random locations and explode.

> And every day thousands of them would drive to random locations and explode.

Bit close to the truth with v1.0 self-driving Level 3 or 4 and denser battery tech.

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

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Post by dang » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:05 AM UTC

michalc wrote: post #27

My favourite: "What do we want?" "Now!" "When do we want it?" "Fewer race conditions!"

Besides being a great joke, it explains the concept perfectly.

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

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Post by wging » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:09 AM UTC

Yes.

(ok, this one's actually a logic joke...)

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

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Post by kodah » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:11 AM UTC

What's the computational complexity of an average developer workload on Linux?

O(Chrome)

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

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Post by motyar » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:12 AM UTC

true

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

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Post by lhorie » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:12 AM UTC

sloaken wrote: post #42

johnthuss wrote: post #7

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.

The real answer is: Those who don't understand binary Those that think its a binary joke Those who understand trinary no no it is: Those who don't understand binary Those that think its a binary joke Those that think its a trinary joke Those who understand base 4 ...

A human and a alien are talking about their number systems

Human: Oh, I see you use base 4. We use base 10.

Alien: WTF is base 4? We use base 10.