What's the difference between an introverted programmer and an extroverted programmer? The extroverted programmer looks at your shoes when he's talking to you.
Heard this but with with NSA agents instead of programmers :-)
Finns.
Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
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Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#892Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Is it? In the outer "real world" the bartender will give the programmer a drink for a joke. It could be a knock-knock joke or anything, but the programmer makes it recursive. Thus making the whole thing a joke to us, otherwise it would be a knock-knock joke embedded in a pointless programmer/bartender reference.
In the first joke level, the bartender will give the programmer a drink for a joke; it doesn't work to arbitrarily end here because "a programmer asks the bartender for a drink and the bartender gives him a drink" isn't anything like a joke to qualify at the parent level.
The next level is another layer of recursion and here the programmer can literally ask for a drink and get one even though that isn't funny in itself because it can be funny in the context of the outer joke using "he asked for a drink and got one" as a cheeky way to tell a joke to get a drink, and because it's a reference to recursion, the reason for Chekhov's Programmer in the opening sentence, so making something that qualifies as a joke to get the real world programmer a real world beer.
Seems to me like it's the earliest point it could return and still potentially work, rather than an arbitrary point?
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#893"To all programmers, God is real...
...unless explicitly declared to be integer..."
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#894Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#895just thought of this one . not much funny but has good potential
q: what is extreme form of amd fan boy programmer ? ans : they even refuse to run their code on Intel cpu even when the dev pc has intel cpu. they run everything in shaders in amd gpu so it doesn't touch intel cpu . bonus : what about boilerplate for running shaders on gpu ? ans : they hire a guy to write that for them. not touching intel in any case
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#896Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is funny because no one uses the factory pattern in other languages
Well, to a first approximation, no, nobody uses the factory pattern in other languages. Once in a long while you see one in C# or C++. But the people making fun of Java aren't comparing it with C# and C++.
I used C/C++ for years, and I just don't believe that the world+dog quit creational design patterns. It was just now very easy to find a database connection pool for C++ that is exactly a connection factory. Would you mind clarifying your comment that almost nobody uses factory patterns in other languages with some sense of exactness as to what is and what isn't a factory?
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#897Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is funny because no one uses the factory pattern in other languages
Reminds me of the old FactoryFactoryFactory joke [1] [1] https://gist.github.com/nkbt/4691b1ae3e78a6141aea
Also reminds me of the self-effacing response to nomenclature criticism in Java:
https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#898An old one, but I might as well be the first:
There are three hard problems in programming: naming, cache expiration and off-by-one errors.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#899Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#900I know a good one, but it's a UDP joke so I don't know if you'd get it.