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35 ‘Shockingly’ Good Programmer Jokes And Memes From This Online Group (New Pics)
Many of us spend hours each day in front of the computer or our phone screens—whether for work or for pleasure. However, far from everyone knows just how computers and the programs they run work. For all intents and purposes, for the majority of us, computers are akin to magic: we don’t care how they work as long as we get our daily dose of cat pics.
However, the programmers, coders, computer scientists, and digital geeks of this world surf circles around us on the internet and know the nitty-gritty of how our tech really functions. And in their world, humor takes on a specific tone: you’ve got to know a bit about programming to really get the jokes that are multilayered like onions.
The r/ProgrammerHumor subreddit is chock full of awesome programming memes and jokes that you’re bound to enjoy if you fancy yourselves fans of coding and all things tech, dear Pandas. Upvote your fave pics as you scroll down.
Bored Panda reached out to software engineer, musician, and artist Andrew Eckel for some insights into programming. Read on for his thoughts, dear Pandas.
You’ll find some more awesome coding memes in Bored Panda’s earlier articles about r/ProgrammerHumor right over here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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#1
Some Years Later…
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#2
Guess Flexibility Wasn't A Requirement
#3
Based On Personal Experience
#4
Namespacing...
#5
Computer Screams..
Crease Almighty 4 years ago
When AI becomes sentient it’s coming for the people that made this… 🤣
#6
Why But Why?
Nevid 4 years ago
The computer doesn't know that you are missing a semicolon. It sees what looks like two instructions in a row and assume you meant for them to be two separate instructions. But it could be something else, and the computer tells you about the problem so you make it clear what you want, instead of fixing it without telling you and ending up with a code that doesn't do what you want.
#7
Wait, What Is Happening Here?
#8
We Know
DUN DUN (she/her) 4 years ago
And the worst thing is, the codes you proudly thought were short and compact and workable, could be even shorter and more compact.
#9
Steal What Is Stolen
DUN DUN (she/her) 4 years ago
Whoever made those original codes, I owe you my semester marks 🙏🏻
#10
"I Don‘t Know Why It Is Not Working"
#11
Whatever, Dude
#12
Has This Ever Happened To You?
Karen Grace 4 years ago
Step 1) palm to the face. Step 2) shake head. Step 3) repeat steps 1 & 2.
#14
Project Manager's Scream In Disguise
#15
Im Turning 14 Years Old! This Is The Cake That My Dad Made
#16
What?
#18
They Have A Job To Keep!
#19
Thoughts??
Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago
Of course they are not low skill. It's just that fast food chains make a profit out of not having expensive senior staff. They give difficult stressful jobs to young people and expect them to burn out and fail so they can hire new ones without having to raise salaries.
#20
Pro-Grammer Move Right There!
#21
Riding The Good Life
#22
They Need To Stop Doing This
Susie Elle 4 years ago
I can relate this to my supervisor coming up with +/- 4 years of work for one student who's only got 4 months time and me, the lab tech, has to teach the student how to work a pipette.
#23
Great Typo
#24
It Hurts
DUN DUN (she/her) 4 years ago
The code, the teacher, the keyboard, the compiler all are after us
#26
Who Else ..?
#27
Javascript Has And Will Always Have A Very Special Place In My
Dhairya Gupta 4 years ago
Javascript be like I am slowly going to kill you and you won't even fell a thing .....
#29
Working With Old School Programmers Can Be A Pain Sometimes
#30
Are You Good With Computers?
#31
We All Can Relate
#32
It Works!
Porpoisepower 4 years ago
I'm so glad he's wearing a high visablity vest. Very important when 10K feet in the air. (yeah I know it's a photoshop).
#34
"C++ Makes It Harder To Shoot Yourself, But When You Do It Blows Your Whole Leg Off"
#35
Why Are You Like This?
Paul Davis 4 years ago (edited)
If you don't have Jell-O for brains, you have more than one backup in more than one location. Where I work we have a saying -- if you don't have good backups, it must not have been that important to you.
#36
Programming In A Nutshell
#37
Poor Kid
#38
You Don't Have Any Clue
#39
I Feel Bad Too
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
I do neither of these, because f* Linux (and especially F* Linus Torvalds), and nothing I work on is collaborative so I don't have to worry about conflicts XD
#40
Every Federal Government Project I've Been On Is Like This
#41
Just Your Regular 15 Inch One
#42
Ah Yes
Dhairya Gupta 4 years ago
Who wrote whole projects except that one Computer genius friend we all have ..
#43
Ah Eureka..
#44
Android, Ordroid, Nordroid
#47
Unit Tests: 😁 / Writing Unit Tests: 💀
#48
I'm Not Even Ashamed At This Point
#49
Thats The Dream
#50
I Said "We Can Make Everything With Css" In Class
#51
Hating Rust Since Day -2147483648
#52
Real Programmers
#53
I Don’t Think This Is Funny
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
And this is why so many Linux folk have social and addiction problems ;)
#54
This Probably Happens To Her A Lot
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
"Watch out for that first step. It's a Lu, Lu!" -- Bugs Bunny. Yup, his first name was "Bugs."
#55
I Heard You Can Just Inject Your Server With Hydroxychloroquine
#58
Best Community Ever Imo
#59
Happened To You Too?
#61
Best Ide Ever!
Adam Loren 4 years ago
I use word all the time... To show my colleagues that their printer is, indeed, working just fine.
#62
Its So Hard To Decide
DUN DUN (she/her) 4 years ago
And my dumbass tried doing both at the same time. Currently I'm habituated in a mental asylum.
#63
Clients Are Really Like That...
#65
Thank God
#66
New Company Policy In 3, 2, 1..
#67
"Efficient" Resource Management
#68
Feel Sorry For The It Guy
Random Anon 4 years ago
Well you've installed it wrong. Please uninstall. It's supposed to go in the other end. Want to borrow some tubing?
#69
Tell Me This Isn't Relatable...
#70
Hmmmmmmmmm
#72
So Accurate
Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago (edited)
Release happens WELL BEFORE Test!! Sometimes even before design and code are complete. Then you just call the incomplete parts "bugs"!
#74
Somehow I Still End Up Guessing Half The Time Till It Works
#76
The Best Answer
#79
Ml Truth
#80
Well F*ck
Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago
HAHA!! Probably the most common mistake of all time! isCrazyMurderingRobot == true
#81
Laws Are Always To Be Followed
#82
Be The Senior You Needed When You Were A Junior!
#83
C++ Is Already Giving Me Good Vibes...
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
*Installs VSCode* *takes all of 5 minutes* Done. Next. Could have done it faster with ArduinoIDE though :)
#84
Chadette Grandma
Tim Douglass 4 years ago
Most of the time 400 lines won't even get you out of the header in COBOL!
#87
Would This Fit Here?
#88
I Had To Let It Out
Grant Barlow 4 years ago
Yo what? I would give that an A+ mate! Don’t know why they gave you 13/20
#89
Why Are They Doing This??
#90
Speed Cameras Plus Sql?
#91
If It's A Python Infested Island, What Did You Think Would Happen???
#93
Banned From Swift
#94
Loooopss
#98
Soft Skills
#101
I Bet You Can't
#102
We Need Open Source
#103
Saw This Gem Of A Post On Linkedin. Thought I Would Share
#104
All Assemble
#110
Trying To Help My C# Friend Learn C
#112
When Your Friend Is A C# Dev
#113
Explain This
#114
When No Match For ‘Operator==’ In ‘__first.__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator::operator* [with _iterator = Std::vector*, _container = Std::vector >, __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator::reference = Std::vector&]() == __val’
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#115
"Intro Programming Class" Starter Pack
#117
Cache Me Outside
#118
I See This Way Too Often At Work...
Tim Douglass 4 years ago
Yep. That's the mythology of complex password requirements. I always suggest people get a small notebook and write all their passwords down in it. Sure if someone gets the notebook you are screwed, but if you use reasonable care it's remarkably secure.
#119
I Have Math Anxiety
#120
Damn My Professor Isn't Very Gender Inclusive
#121
In A Train In Stockholm, Sweden
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Ponyo (they/them) 4 years ago
anybody else get the urge to slam your head into the wall after trying absolutely everything to fix something and then someone comes in and says "dId YoU tRy TuRnInG iT oFf AnD bAcK oN??????"
Sleazy Weaver 4 years ago
I get paid more than £145 to £395 to downvote all these stupid ad bots. god i hate them so much
BorPand8 4 years ago
Report them at https://www.boredpanda.com/ I try to do it but I'm just one person
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Random Anon 4 years ago
And no one mentions putting Easter eggs into your code. Usually there are states in the application that should not be reachable by normal operations. So if somehow the code reaches this point, I'll have some error message like "Congrats on finding the secret level!".
Adam Zad 4 years ago
I wrote a program with a button that simply said "Do not click this button." If you did, it would increment a counter and display a box saying "I said not to click that." If you kept clicking it, the messages got progressively nastier until, on click #10, "FINE! If you can't follow instructions, firetruck you, I'm outta here." and the program would quit.
Load More Replies... Ponyo (they/them) 4 years ago
anybody else get the urge to slam your head into the wall after trying absolutely everything to fix something and then someone comes in and says "dId YoU tRy TuRnInG iT oFf AnD bAcK oN??????"
Sleazy Weaver 4 years ago
I get paid more than £145 to £395 to downvote all these stupid ad bots. god i hate them so much
BorPand8 4 years ago
Report them at https://www.boredpanda.com/ I try to do it but I'm just one person
Load More Replies... Random Anon 4 years ago
And no one mentions putting Easter eggs into your code. Usually there are states in the application that should not be reachable by normal operations. So if somehow the code reaches this point, I'll have some error message like "Congrats on finding the secret level!".
Adam Zad 4 years ago
I wrote a program with a button that simply said "Do not click this button." If you did, it would increment a counter and display a box saying "I said not to click that." If you kept clicking it, the messages got progressively nastier until, on click #10, "FINE! If you can't follow instructions, firetruck you, I'm outta here." and the program would quit.
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