Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

Post by ThrustVectoring » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:13 AM UTC

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Post by mark-r » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:19 AM UTC

musicale wrote: post #47

nvader wrote: post #41

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The next time she says to him, "while you're at the store, pick up some bananas." Legend says he's at the store still.

Programmers will also use up all the shampoo if the label says "lather, rinse, repeat" with no explicit termination condition.

Post by kaliara » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:20 AM UTC

lhorie wrote: post #70

sloaken wrote: post #42

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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.