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What's your favorite coding joke/comic etc?

Ben Halpern on April 01, 2019

Let's have them!

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Ben Halpern •

There are hundreds of brilliant xkcd comics. This one might be my favorite:

source

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Stephanie Handsteiner •

Classic.

DenverCoder9 answers DenverCoder9: “nvm, figured it out.“

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fischgeek • • Edited

Hahaha! Right!?

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Laurie •

I alluded to this in my post today! dev.to/laurieontech/don-t-get-fool...

Just because you find the question on google...doesn’t mean you’ll find the answer alongside it :/

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Ben Halpern •

🙌

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E Cognito •

Programming

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Jason R Tibbetts •

Holy shit--this is so accurate!

They say that a junior developer's mistakes have a small impact on a project, but a senior dev's mistakes have a big impact, so by that logic, the experienced programmer's rake should be even bigger.

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Jason R Tibbetts •

I fell asleep on the keyboard, and it exited my vi session. ZZ.

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Sophie The Lionhart •

The easy way to exit is to just restart your computer!

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Sahil Grover •

github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim this might be helpful

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James Turner • • Edited

Bobby Tables!

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Dan Greene •

We literally have this posted on the wall in our office.

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Eliza Zadura • • Edited

I love that, was going to post it myself. Hilarious :D It's on our wall too.

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Paul •

A classic.

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Diego Giuliani •

Always loved this one

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Drew Bragg •

This has always been one of my favorites!

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Molly Struve (she/her) •

I think I love this so much because for a long time I had no clue where it was reported 😂

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partlybakedideas •

me too!(I was also my own admin.)

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Laurie • • Edited

This one was sent to me by a coworker after my first bug fix gone wrong. Definitely cheered me up!

99 bugs

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Ben Halpern •

I feel this in my bones

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Thomas Rayner •

Might as well have tagged me in this one

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VenatusDev •

This is so true though

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Varun Barad •

I recently read this gem on reddit.com/r/programmerhumor

Novice: What is a good prefix for global variables?
Expert: //
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode
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Luke Inglis •

For anyone who deals in formal logic I've always been partial to the following.

Programmer's spouse: Could you go to the store and buy a gallon of milk? If there are eggs get a dozen.

...Programmer return some while later with a dozen gallons of milk...

Programmer's spouse: Why on Earth did you buy twelve gallons of milk?!

Programmer: Well there were eggs.

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Yechiel Kalmenson • • Edited

Classic!

Reminds me of this one:

The programmers roommate texts them "hey, while you're out can you please buy some milk?"

The programmer never returned...

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Khoa Che •

He should crash, he don't have enough money to buy infinite milk.

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Saurabh Sharma •

infinite loop. LOL

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still-dreaming-1 •

This reminds me of a sign I used to drive by a lot that read "End 55 MPH Speed Limit". I was always like "Woohoo, the only speed limit that existed just ended!"

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Yechiel Kalmenson •

Lol, apparently speed limits can be nested, so when you go from a 75mph zone to a 55mph zone you're still in the 75... 🤔

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chustedde •

A coworker had this pinned on her desk divider when I got my first programming job and I've passed it on to every programmer I've worked with since then:

sandraandwoo.com/2012/11/19/0430-s...

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Andrew Meredith •

My wife is currently giving me funny looks because I cannot stop laughing after seeing this!

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Ben Halpern •

😄

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Renato Byrro •

Unfortunately I identify previous experiences with this one!.. Good laughs

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Yechiel Kalmenson •

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Ben Halpern •

Been there

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Andreas Jakof •

Been there as well. Now I prefer a language, where the Compiler won’t allow this.

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Yechiel Kalmenson • • Edited

Who hasn't 😭

Thankfully without the murderous robots though...

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Jason R Tibbetts •

That we know of...

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VenatusDev •

Amazing

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Stephen Chiang •

comic

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Laurie •

This will always remind of this:
destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

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Stephen Chiang •

I lol'd in public while walking my dogs because of this.

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Dave Cridland •

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."

"There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery"

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Saurabh Sharma •

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."

my fav. tho

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Thomas Rayner •

Not my favorite of all time, but a good one I saw the other day.

zero vs null

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JeFFBlanco •

sudo make me a sandwich

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Subramanian 😎 •

I couldn't find my favorite one.
So here you go.
Light IDE Theme

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fischgeek • • Edited

no idea

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Tobias SN •

A programmer walks into a bar and orders 1.0000000019 root beers.
Bartender: “I’ll have to charge you extra for that, that’s a root beer float.”
Programmer: “Well in that case make it a double.”

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fischgeek •

two stages

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Shannon Crabill •

My fave goes something like this.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Unexpected } on line 42

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Ben Halpern •

😂

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Vinicius Lourenço •

It's my favorite.

My favorite comic.

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Andreas Jakof •

Been there too! The guy regretted it afterwards.

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fischgeek • • Edited

I have a few.

dev_vs_user

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Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers •

I don't know about my favorite, but this just made me giggle

I now also want IOS 13 to provide free psychotherapy via siri.

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Oleksii Filonenko •

In GNU Emacs, you can run M-x doctor to start a session with Elisa-like chatbot turned psychotherapist. It's amusing at times.

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Boris Jamot ✊ / •

I know I'm a bit late, but this one worth a view:

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fischgeek • • Edited

expectations

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Vincent Milum Jr •

Kids today with their interpreted language will never understand...

xkcd.com/303/

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Daan Wilmer •

Yeah, we're living the programmer dream.

waits three minutes for symphony to rebuild the service containers

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fischgeek •

Last one. Sorry for spamming the thread; just had to share!

types of coders

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Saurabh Sharma •

python dependency

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Avi Aryan •

lol, so accurate

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fischgeek •

designers vs developers

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Michiel Hendriks •

My favorite joke: "I'll look into it."

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AhmadDeel •

One said the site was hacked with CSS.
The other laughed.

Without
Knowing
What
Is
CSS:

Cross Site Scripting

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Mihail Malo •

Isn't that why they call it XSS?

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Nitro Neal •

How did the programmer die in the shower?

He read the instructions on the shampoo - rinse and repeat.

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jun •

This got me lol

joke

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Jason R Tibbetts • • Edited

A C++ class can touch a friend's privates, but it can't touch a friend's child*'s privates.

* subclass

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Fred Richards • • Edited

The xkcd where people ask for your ip, are given 127.0.0.1 and they all knock themselves offline.

Ack! It was User Friendly.

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Shenril •

All Strips from commitstrip.com/en/ are spot-on to me

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Kristina Gocheva •

Not strictly a coding joke but relatable for programmers I think.
glasbergen-people-skills

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Mik Seljamaa 🇪🇪 •

Dilbert where the engineer takes a beauty nap at work to increase productivity.

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Ostap Brehin •

joke

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Prashanth •

Few weeks back, I was coding, only god and I understood how the code worked.

Today only God knows how it works.
😂

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Navdeep Singh •

How do you comfort a JavaScript bug? - Console it hahaha

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windy •

Two Database administrators went to a NoSQL bar. You know what? They couldn't find tables.

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Don Alfons Nisnoni •

When a programmer counting these apples 😄






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0n1r1k0 • • Edited

just another one!
just another one!

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Marcos Aguilera Ely •

I think it's nice.

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Aman Subhan •

My fav joke: I write code that dont have any errors, although my QA team always asks how do we debug this?