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

#41

I think I saw this on reddit years ago: Programmer's wife: "when you go to the store, can you buy a carton of milk and if they have eggs, get six." He comes back with 6 cartons of milk. Wife: "why would you buy six cartons of milk?" "Well, they had eggs"

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.

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

#42

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

...

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

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post #14

A boy and a girl are sitting next to each other in a Java Computer Science class. The boy reaches over and starts going through the girls purse. The girl says: "Hey! That's private!" The boy replies: "But we're in the same class!"

C++:

Friends can access each other's private members in a public class.

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

#47
post #41

I think I saw this on reddit years ago: Programmer's wife: "when you go to the store, can you buy a carton of milk and if they have eggs, get six." He comes back with 6 cartons of milk. Wife: "why would you buy six cartons of milk?" "Well, they had eggs"

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.
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