What is your best programmer joke? • Hacker News Board

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by maggit » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 3:01 PM UTC

_hgt1 wrote: post #21

Before I click, just a quick bet with myself this excellent question has been closed. [edit] yep, locked. Thanks NullUserException! Now another quick bet with myself that someone will reply to this comment defending S.O.s repeated closure of interesting questions.

I get incredible value out of Stack Overflow. Do you not?

Does the fact that this question is locked diminish its value or the value of Stack Overflow in any way?

Of course, Stack Overflow is not made for interesting questions. Notice that I am not defending this descision, I am merely stating it. You know this, which is why you were accurately able to predict that this question would be closed. Why is this interesting enough to warrant commenting that this is the case also today?

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by EarthLaunch » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 3:02 PM UTC

_hgt1 wrote: post #21

Before I click, just a quick bet with myself this excellent question has been closed. [edit] yep, locked. Thanks NullUserException! Now another quick bet with myself that someone will reply to this comment defending S.O.s repeated closure of interesting questions.

I spend 12+ hours a day coding, across a variety of technologies that I'm only semi-familiar with. Stack Overflow saves my sanity on an hourly basis.

It seems like 9/10 of the useful questions are closed by mods, though the answer is usually there anyway. I'm not sure what to make of that, but the quality there is still high.

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by pavelludiq » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 3:05 PM UTC

magikarp wrote: post #9

A Chinese spy manages to steal the last 50MB of the Lisp program governing U.S. missile launches. Fortunately, it was all closing parentheses.

actually, it was javascript and the file contained:

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          });
      };
  }());

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by DjangoReinhardt » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 3:06 PM UTC

_hgt1 wrote: post #21

Before I click, just a quick bet with myself this excellent question has been closed. [edit] yep, locked. Thanks NullUserException! Now another quick bet with myself that someone will reply to this comment defending S.O.s repeated closure of interesting questions.

You won the first bet. Why not quit while you are ahead? ;)

Also, if you are betting with yourself, doesn't it mean that you lose when you win?

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by DjangoReinhardt » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 3:10 PM UTC

Millennium wrote: post #11

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.

Not sure if this is the one you are talking about, but a cursory image search on Google led me to this image in a Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbee2828/92718344/

I don't see the '@' anywhere which leads me to believe this may be a fake/photoshop. Still, quite interesting... :)

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by maggit » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 3:11 PM UTC

DigitalJack wrote: post #23

magikarp wrote: post #9

A Chinese spy manages to steal the last 50MB of the Lisp program governing U.S. missile launches. Fortunately, it was all closing parentheses.

The joke would be a little better if you didn't explicitly as it was a lisp. Gotta leave a moment of epiphany for the listener.

I can't make up my mind about which of the following is better:

> A Chinese spy manages to steal the last 50MB of the program governing U.S. missile launches. Fortunately, it was all closing parentheses.

or

> A Chinese spy manages to steal the last 50MB of the program governing U.S. missile launches. Fortunately, it was Lisp.

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by mck- » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 3:17 PM UTC

How long does it take for a dyslexic programmer to get this joke?

Logn time

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by libria » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 3:20 PM UTC

_hgt1 wrote: post #21

Before I click, just a quick bet with myself this excellent question has been closed. [edit] yep, locked. Thanks NullUserException! Now another quick bet with myself that someone will reply to this comment defending S.O.s repeated closure of interesting questions.

Looks like I already won my bet that someone on HN was going to bitch and moan about closed questions again.

Surely you can make a good case for it on meta.stackoverflow.com?

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by Turing_Machine » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 3:25 PM UTC

maggit wrote: post #31

_hgt1 wrote: post #21

Before I click, just a quick bet with myself this excellent question has been closed. [edit] yep, locked. Thanks NullUserException! Now another quick bet with myself that someone will reply to this comment defending S.O.s repeated closure of interesting questions.

I get incredible value out of Stack Overflow. Do you not? Does the fact that this question is locked diminish its value or the value of Stack Overflow in any way? Of course, Stack Overflow is not made for interesting questions. Notice that I am not defending this descision, I am merely stating it. You know this, which is why you were accurately able to predict that this question would be closed. Why is this interesti…

At least 4/5 of the times it comes up in a Google search (for the stuff I search for, at least), some idiot moderator has closed the question.

The message that sends to me is "Your question isn't worthy of our site. Go away."

So, yeah, it does make using the site less pleasant, and thus reduces its value to me.

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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Post by Turing_Machine » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 3:27 PM UTC

libria wrote: post #38

_hgt1 wrote: post #21

Before I click, just a quick bet with myself this excellent question has been closed. [edit] yep, locked. Thanks NullUserException! Now another quick bet with myself that someone will reply to this comment defending S.O.s repeated closure of interesting questions.

Looks like I already won my bet that someone on HN was going to bitch and moan about closed questions again. Surely you can make a good case for it on meta.stackoverflow.com?

Why should I have to "make my case"? I'm the customer (or at least the user), right?

If they don't get those mods on a leash pretty soon, someone else will come along and drink their milkshake and I won't have to do anything.