Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

news.ycombinator.com

131–140 of 905 posts

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

#134

A physicist, chemist, and programmer were going to lunch together. When they got in the car though, it wouldn’t start. “Maybe it’s out of gas?” said the Chemist. “Maybe it’s a problem with the engine?” said the Physicist. “Maybe if we all just get out of the car and get back in.”

“Maybe if we all just close all windows, turn off the car, get out of the car and get back in.”

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

#136

Q: How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb? A: Programmers don't change light bulbs; that's a hardware problem.

Q: How many Google engineers does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None. They just change the standard to dark.

—————

Originally (circa 1998) this was Microsoft joke, but this is a good update.

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

#140
post #94

(Not my joke) At a recent real-time Java conference, the participants were given an awkward question to answer: "If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible for the flight control software, how many of you would disembark immediately?" Among the forest of raised hands only one man sat motionless. When asked what he would do, he replied that he would be quite c…

I thought the punchline was going to be about waiting for garbage collection to finish
Post reply on HN