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This is a wonderful easter egg, thanks!
Did you mean where it says "did you mean . . . "?
Yes
Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
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0 if the bottle is empty. 1 if its hot. -1 when its cold :D
FileNotFound if it's none of those
As reported in the famous Daily WTF post:
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#783A 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."
Google gets recursion:
https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/12/google-gets-recursion.ht...
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#784This 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…
My preferred version:
Heisenberg and Schrodinger are driving down the road when they hit a bump.
Schrodinger says: I think you ran over a cat!
Heisenberg: Is the cat dead?
Schrodinger: I can't be certain.
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"I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be. But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.…
Definitively a poor choice of words. What he really meant was "I funded ARPANET, the basis for the Internet"
Better, but still a bit shaky. Probabl 'I refunded Arpanet...' (in 1991 Gore Bill). Arpanet was started in 1966, and he is not that old. It is clear Gore was an important supporter of the expansion of the internet, but it is hard to put it in a catchphrase with doesnt sound like 'first I created heaven and earth...'
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I don't get it :( Did she know the answer? Then why the confusion at the start?
Yeah that does push it a bit, but the joke is that she didn't understand what he was talking about with the 'onethirdxcubed', mis-parsing it without context. But when asked the integral, she knew the answer; not because she'd been told.
Then it could also almost be a joke about parsing and context-free grammars or such.
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#787This is an amalgam of two half-remembered jokes, but I think it works. ------- An engineer, physicist, mathematician, and programmer are all hired by a shepherd to create a pen to hold as many sheep as possible with the materials given. The engineer sets to work immediately building a traditional rectangular fence: a proven design which works. She finishes in an hour. The physicist pulls out pencil and notepad, and a…
This was only the second joke I liked in this thread, reading sequentially. First one was about the balloon.
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Maybe a bug in a joke, perhaps the coordinates need fixing.
The programmer is messing with the PM.
I think maybe the programmer has forgotten to replace the mock data with a real data feed and he tells everyone who asks the same incorrect latitude and longitude no matter where they are.
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#789Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#790A 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.
Finally, a recursion joke that is not about infinite recursion!
Well, strictly speaking it is. There is no terminating condition- the OP simply chose to return at an arbitrary point in the recursion.