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What is your best programmer joke?

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Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by Millennium »

At a place where I used to work, someone had a car with one of those Virginia "Internet C@pital" license plates. The design has changed over the years, but this one put the @ in a big blue dot right in the lower center of the license plate. Sadly, I can't find a pic of this person's plate, or even that style of plate, anymore.

The license number was "CAR JPG".

I SO wish I had a pic to prove this.

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by yalogin »

To go off topic a bit here - all these SO articles that are not pinpointed programming questions are always closed or locked. You can no longer ask these kind of open ended, leading to a debate kind of questions on SO anymore. The questions have to be very focused and narrow so that someone can answer it to get points. Its really disappointing but that is just the way the community took it in - pedantic.

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by ColinWright »

ww520 wrote: post #8

There are three kinds of people in the world: the ones who understand binary and the ones who don't.

That's a weird non-joke version. The ones I know are:

The usual:

    There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those
        that understand binary and those that don't.
Then there was:

    There are 11 kinds of people in the world, those
        that understand binary and those that don't.
Which is a riff on:

    There are 3 kinds of people in the world, those
        who can count, and those who can't.
Then along came:

    There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those
        that understand binary, those that don't, and
        those that didn't expect this joke to be in
        ternary.
Yours, on the other hand, just doesn't really make sense. Maybe I'm missing something ...

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by kerbs »

ColinWright wrote: post #16
ww520 wrote: post #8

There are three kinds of people in the world: the ones who understand binary and the ones who don't.

That's a weird non-joke version. The ones I know are: The usual: There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't. Then there was: There are 11 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't. Which is a riff on: There are 3 kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those who can't. Then along came: There are 10 kinds of people i…

The joke is he doesn't get binary.

...or off by 1 error.

OK, I'm confused too :)

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