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A big portion of the miscellaneous cake we call the Earth is sitting in front of their computer screens at this very moment. The pandemic life has made us all largely dependent on computers, electronics, and whatnot.

And while some of us are still sorting out how not to turn up as a cat for your next Zoom meeting, others are totally nailing their inner tech nerds with Starcraft benders.

So this seems like the perfect moment to introduce you to a comedy genre in its own right called Programmer Humor. In fact, there’s a whole powerhouse on Reddit dedicated entirely to that—"humor and jokes relating to programmers and programming.”

Sounds niche? Well, I wouldn't be so sure. 1.4 million members are totally swearing by humorous puns, jokes, and memes that feature everything from coding, cookies, browsers, IT depts, CSS, Java, Python, and you name it.

For a big part of the population, the IT world ends with the system update on your computer screen. You press ‘agree’ and go about the rest of the day. But sometimes, the programming world trolls us big time, like Samsung, who accidentally sent out a mystery alert to thousands of devices yesterday night.

People reacted immediately, claiming the alert woke them up and wanting to find out what it was all about. After all, getting a ‘1’ notification looks very suspicious indeed.

But Samsung isn’t the first company to send out bizarre notifications to a wide audience of clients. Last year, OnePlus accidentally did the same by sending odd text in Chinese characters, which turned out to be an internal test for a software update (and which obviously failed).

Samsung has issued a statement on Twitter saying: “Recently, a notification about “Find My Mobile 1” occurred on a limited number of Galaxy devices. This was sent unintentionally during an internal test and there is no effect on your device. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our customers.”

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As you can imagine, the incident was already picked up by people online as it fueled a fresh burst of jokes and memes.

Such instances show a couple of things. First, accidents do happen. Second, even though Samsung claimed it won’t affect any device that received it, that doesn’t mean it’s not scary. Everyone’s on edge with the pandemic blues already, and such accidental stunts are doing more harm than good.

After we all had a good laugh, it’s up to programmers to clean up the whole mess. Because if there’s a code, there’s a bug, and the two won’t live without one another.

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Ben Steinberg
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And some random assortment of the carrot pieces don't suddenly become NULL...

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Not all technical bugs come and go, and some of them have taught us valuable lessons, sadly, at the cost of innocent people—like the Therac-25 disaster that occurred with the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine. It was produced by Atomic Energy of Canada, but caused accidental radiation overdoses. As a result, it killed six patients.

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Quality "Assurance"

Quality "Assurance"

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Petra Schaap
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i have no clue where this is about but i love the idea of ordering minus one beers in bar. Would that mean you give the bartender one you brought yourself?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, the number of beers ordered must be saved as an integer (a whole number) somewhere in the memory of the program. When the user is asked what value it should be, -1 is in the realm of things to be expected. And when the program receives -1 instead of a (legitimate) positive number, it must do something with it. QA testing is all about making sure the program always knows what to do when the user enters something, because otherwise there may be some unexpected behavior - that's the bar bursting into flames.

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Hans
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This seems accurate. Although equivalence partitioning and boundary value testing are a good start, really.

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Ben Steinberg
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This should be upvoted. I have a user, no how hard I test the code, he always breaks it within 5 minutes...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like it could be a problem with the BA (business analysist) to me. Bad requirements. You can fix bad code easily. It's much harder to fix bad requirements. Also, if it's just a defect, then get some real QA people, not "testers". If you work at a place where they think a QA's job is merely to "test", they will likely be not worth the salary they are making. In fact, they don't understand the job at all. Testing is simply one of many tools a QA person uses. Always involve QA people from the start or near the start of a project. Also, developers should test their code before handing it over. The goal is for there to be no defects for the QA's to find. QA people should be excited when they find a defect due to it not happening very often.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As yes.... the key to programming is being able to handle errors! Making it do what it's meant to do is easy

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, this would be the best cake to get for real. Completely fresh and no secret ingredients.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Extend it ten-fold and you are still not even close to the truth...

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The Therac-25 case’s investigation showed that poor software and insufficient system development caused the malfunctioning of the system. These could have been caused because there were difficulties in performing automated software tests.

Nancy Leveson, an expert who investigated the case, found that inexperienced coders created buggy software. Moreover, it’s speculated that a sole programmer was in charge of creating the software which they based on code from the Therac-6 and Therac-20. It’s thought that the tragedy was really down to human error, which makes it all the more devastating.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And then a few weeks or months down the line, you are reading through the code and thinking who wrote this pile of the proverbial.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am not a doctor but I do personally know one. Doctors do google a lot too. There's no way a person can remember all those prescriptions and their side effects.

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It's Always Fun

It's Always Fun

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Readmes Are Just Suggestions Anyways

Readmes Are Just Suggestions Anyways

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Every Class You Break, Every Fix You Fake, I'll Be Judging You

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How Times Change!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Apollo source code is on the web. In it -- in code that ultimately was compiled and went to the moon -- is a comment on a line: "Temporary I hope I hope I hope". It wasn't temporary. Nothing has changed in programming since 1969.

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I Feel Like One Of These Books Is Misleading Me

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