A programmer had a problem. He thought to himself: "I know, I'll solve this with threads!" has Now problems. two he
This one always bugs me because it says "two" but this output couldn't be produced with fewer than 3 threads.
Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
251–260 of 905 posts
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#252An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first mathematician orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. "I don't serve half-beers" the bartender replies. "Excuse me?" Asks mathematician #2. "What kind of bar serves half-beers?" The bartender remarks. "That's ridiculous." "Oh c'mon" says mathematician #1 "do you know how hard it is to collect an infinite number of us? Just play along". "There are v…
The "you learn limits in like, 9th grade" comment reminds me of this one:
Two mathematicians are in a bar. The first one says to the second that the average person knows very little about basic mathematics. The second one disagrees, and claims that most people can cope with a reasonable amount of math. The first mathematician goes off to the washroom, and in his absence the second calls over the waitress. He tells her that in a few minutes, after his friend has returned, he will call her over and ask her a question. All she has to do is answer one third x cubed.
She repeats "one thir -- dex cue"?
He repeats "one third x cubed".
She says, "one thir dex cuebd"?
Yes, that's right, he says. So she agrees, and goes off mumbling to herself, "one thir dex cuebd...".
The first guy returns and the second proposes a bet to prove his point, that most people do know something about basic math. He says he will ask the blonde waitress an integral, and the first laughingly agrees. The second man calls over the waitress and asks "what is the integral of x squared?".
The waitress says "one third x cubed" and while walking away, turns back and says over her shoulder "plus a constant!"
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#253This is an oldie (I first heard it in the 80s) but is one of my all time favorites. While it can be told about any two classes of people it really applies to a lot of code I encounter: A physicist is showing a thermos to her friend, a programmer. "It's amazing", she said. "You put a cold drink inside and regardless of how hot it is outside the drink stays cold". The programmer is suitably impressed. "But that's not a…
Could you share an example of this? I could be misinterpreting this but say you're building a survey system and you need to keep track of answer types (e.g. text, date, etc) and the answer itself, how can you collapse that into one field?
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#254Q: 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 prolog programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: No.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you mean you're not a programmer, rad, good compliment. If you mean QA engineers aren't programmers... wtaf?
It's weird how some people admit they still test code by hand
I mean, I’m a programmer and I still test code manually. I’m not sure why it has to be xor
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#256A russian, a french, and an irish archeologist are talking in a bar
french: we found copper wire in our last dig, it shows france invented networking
russian: we found glass strands in our last dig, it proves russia invented fibre optics
irish: we found nothing. It proves the irish invented wireless networks.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#257Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#258Fortran joke: God is real, unless declared integer.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
#259Apparently a true story: A guy was walking around in a Ruby conference with a shirt that said ":sex" (which is read "sex symbol" in Ruby). Until someone asked him: "I don't get it. Why colon sex?"
As a Rubyist I laughed at that so hard my wife woke up. I work with Python on a daily basis now but I need to make a SFW variant and show it to the Ruby team.