Ben Halpern

Posted on Feb 6

Meme Monday 🧢

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

Meme Monday!

Today's cover image comes from last week's thread.

DEV is an inclusive space! Humor in poor taste will be downvoted by mods.

Top comments (90)

sahra 💫 • Feb 6

Jatin Sharma • Feb 7 • Edited

Never ever 😂

Varshith V Hegde • Feb 8

why the hell is this true😂🤣

Daniel Nogueira • Feb 8

Makes sense

Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel • Feb 7

😝😝😝😝😝

sahra 💫 • Feb 6 • Edited

Programming languages

Caitin • Feb 7 • Edited

I asked an AI-powered querying tool to rank the most popular programming languages (excluding null).
It returned:

HTML is on the list. @_@

Daniel Nogueira • Feb 8

What?!

Caitin • Feb 10

Maybe AI made a mistake. Ha, ha.

dwarfŧ • Feb 11

🥺so cute!!!

Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel • Feb 7

🤩🤩🤩🤩

Nerro • Feb 7

fits perfectly to me

Sherry Day • Feb 6

Ishaan Sheikh • Feb 7

I like the C#'s response 😂

Raí B. Toffoletto • Feb 7

C# made me laugh! 😂

tq-bit • Feb 7 • Edited

C++ sounds like your average senior dev after PM explained customer demands. Love it

Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel • Feb 7

wow🤩

Abhishek Keshri • Feb 7

this is gold! 🪙

CitronBrick • Feb 7

JavaScript's response actually fits Ruby & Scala.

Sherry Day • Feb 6

FML

Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel • Feb 7

🤣🤣🤣🤣

coderjoher • Feb 8

😂🤣🤣🤣

Besworks • Feb 6

Raí B. Toffoletto • Feb 7

🤣🤣

Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel • Feb 7

🤣

slashtechno • Feb 8

When there's a merge conflict.

Jatin Sharma • Feb 6

Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel • Feb 7

🙄

Diner Das • Feb 6

Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel • Feb 7

😮

Oscar Ortiz • Feb 6

NLxDoDge • Feb 6

Add another one that grabs the Javascript called Typescript 🤣

Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel • Feb 7

😝

sahra 💫 • Feb 6

Frank Font • Feb 6

Lol -- finding out they use MS WORD to edit program files.

lionel-rowe • Feb 7

Real pros use PowerPoint. 1 slide = 1 module. Syntax highlighting is done manually with rich text, and every callback to setTimeout has to be animated to fade in after the timeout period.

Frank Font • Feb 8

Love it. VSCode is just part of the MS office suite, so not a big change to use Powerpoint instead.

Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel • Feb 7

😒😥

Diner Das • Feb 6

Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel • Feb 7

🤣

Harsh Sinha • Feb 6

𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ • Feb 8

My code is literally unstealable.

Because I public-domain almost all of it anyway.

cubiclesocial • Feb 9

There's no such thing as public domain for software. And, in the attempt, you probably make yourself legally liable for any damage your software causes anyone else whether perceived or actual. The best you can do, to date, is offer your software under the very liberal MIT software license, which contains the requisite protective NO WARRANTY OR FITNESS clause. A software license protects you, not your software, from unnecessary and very expensive litigation.

I'm not a lawyer. The above information comes from discussions I've had with the Open Source Initiative (OSI) specifically about public domain and software licensing. If you want legal advice, you should talk to a lawyer. OSI licenses like the MIT license have already been vetted by real lawyers and you should select and use one of them.

𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ • Feb 9

I use the unlicense, so there's a fallback in case public domain doesn't legally work
there's also a "no warranty" clause just in case
that wouldn't matter anyway because if it just said "public domain" and that was void, then it would default back to "all rights reserved" and I wouldn't be liable for shit because nobody would have a right to use it at all
I'm fairly confident that such a clause is kind of pointless anyway as I'm not selling my code or advertising it for business purposes and it's very clear that I'm just some random person on the internet writing code, but I haven't felt the need to look this up because 1., 2. and 3.

Anyway, here's the license text for reference (I also have some older code under MIT)

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
means.

In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors
of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the
software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit
of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and
successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of
relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this
software under copyright law.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

For more information, please refer to <http://unlicense.org/>

cubiclesocial • Feb 15

softwareengineering.stackexchange....

𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ • Feb 15

Sounds like a bunch of IANAL bringing up legal criticisms mostly intended to cc0 that, if they apply to the unlicense, would equally apply to the MIT license (which, for example, has the exact same warranty paragraph that the most upvoted answer calls "inconsistent" in the unlicense)

The part about it being "illegal" in Germany is also a bit weird.

Hauke T. • Feb 27

I'd like to see the lawsuit where some big company points at some random guy who posted some code online: "That dude! Its his fault! He put the code online. We just copied it and used it without looking at it. After all: He did't put a sign up there: 'I am not liable if you use it in a nuclear power-plant.'"

Its going to be hilarious.

cubiclesocial • Mar 1

Unfortunately, within the current legal system in the United States, anything is possible.

𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ • Mar 1

I'd be lying if I said the legal system of the USA is anywhere high on my priority list when choosing a software license tbh.

Diner Das • Feb 6

Hauke T. • Feb 6

I am proud to be in the "if it's boring it must be automated" team.
Boring/Repetitive tasks stop me from doing the interesting things I chose my profession for.

I take it as a chance to improve my overall skill-set. I am not only a web developer now, but also an Azure Pipelines Poweruser.