35 Jokes That Programmers Should Have No Trouble Relating To, As Shared In This Online Group
Tech companies are no longer recognized as just computer software producers. From the take-outs we order to the movies we stream, they've become integral parts of our lives.
So to better understand the folks that belong to them and make it all happen, let's take a look at what's going on in the Facebook group 'Programming Jokes & MeMes' where industry professionals relate to each other by poking fun at their joys and sorrows.
You will probably understand more if you can write at least one line of code yourself, however, that's not a prerequisite; the members of this online community are people just like you and me, and even if you're merely a simple internet user, chances are, you will still learn something about this colorful bunch after you scroll through their posts that we collected for you.
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Hint: your last one you created was 7*&^*&gjHtujhgjkHG87686Jhg675&^*&^*&)YTYTEytffwjh
Now, what was that mnemonic I made up to remember it...?
Load More Replies...I have a giant list of assorted passwords in my phone. And then I only need to remember one
According to Stack Overflow’s 2020 Developer Survey, JavaScript currently stands as the most commonly-used language in the world (69.7%), followed by HTML/CSS (62.4%), SQL (56.9%), Python (41.6%), and Java (38.4%). And you can see this list represented in the group's content, too.
Simply put, JavaScript is used to manage the behavior of web pages. With it, coders create dynamic web elements such as animated graphics, interactive maps, clickable buttons, and so on.
Programmers who use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in tandem obtain an even higher level of website control and can provide a better user experience in terms of navigation and readability.
You say something your way, I say the same in other people's way. Sometimes you pay, sometimes the other people pay. Sometimes it's pro bono and nobody pays, but I'm happy with that (Translators Without Borders).
I tell machines to make smaller machines. Oh. That sounds like I'm impregnating them.
THats why i gave up learning c the entire programe wouldnt run if i forgot a ; at the end of each line. the smallest things will screw up your programe in miraculus ways
"I told the computers to do things. I think they're starting to revolt. Please send help..."
I make computers stop doing the things they weren't supposed to do... sometimes.
I hate this c**p. They make the APIs incompatible with older versions or they make some new library dependency.
That will never happen to my wife. She will buy absolutely every new kitchen gadget. We have scissors, knifes, spoons, tweezers... for every ingredient. Of course, she rarely cooks.
it's saying that a old peeler wont ever Not work on a carrot, when a programming language can become out of support very quickly.
Load More Replies...My boyfriend is a programmer and he dislikes cooking since recepies never are clear enough unlike programming which is *insanely* precise.
That is why good programmers write self supporting code and avoid library call wherever possible.
Only yesterday, half of my Rich Tea broke off and fell into my tea. Disaster!
Load More Replies...As a British person, I can confirm we do
Load More Replies...Yep. In the UK the term cookie refers specifically to a soft biscuit, often with lumps in made from chocolate chips or toffee or something. All cookies are biscuits but not all biscuits are cookies.
Load More Replies...Python, on the other hand, is a general-purpose programming language that empowers developers to use several different programming styles (such as functional, object-oriented, reflective, etc.) when creating programs.
Several popular digital tools and platforms were developed with Python, including YouTube, Google Search, and iRobot machines.
As one of the easier-to-learn and -use languages, Python is ideal for both beginners and experienced coders alike. The language comes with an extensive library that supports common commands and tasks, and its interactive qualities allow programmers to test code as they go, reducing the amount of time wasted on creating and testing long sections of code.
Check your URL, restart your browser, clean the cache, try to open it in an incognito window, change device... You're not pushing yourself!
Load More Replies...Its HTTP 404 - an error code when server doesn't find any response for your request. Generally known as 404 - NOT FOUND
Its known to me as 3 things: 1. i am using windows 2.my crappy wifi router will not let the port forwarding settings work 3. i use yahoo
Load More Replies...working in walmart in the mid 90's-ish, in the media department. I had the register for the cameras and across from me, a slightly older gentleman manned the other. We were both behind the registers, talking about CDs, and this young lady, I think 15, listened for a bit and then asked "I know what 8-track is, my uncle had one, but what's vinyl?" His and my head hit the counter simultaneously.....
Don't remind me of printers. You know, the old ones, with the looooooong paper that went 'iiieeeuw, iieuuuw, gzriii, tak! tak! tak! tak! gzriiii .....' about three lines per minute? Time for a cup of coffee again.
Dot matrix printers. We thought they were amazing in a generation where we used typewriters and carbon paper.
Load More Replies...Are you this old? https://www.historicalcollections.deib.polimi.it/en/collezioni/informatica-collezioni/dischi-floppy/dischi-floppy-5/
Punch cards. I did my first programming on punch cards. 👵👵👵
Load More Replies...In many places the telephone function is still represented by an icon of a 1950s handset. There must be more of these old-time hangovers. Hope others will chime in.
Just be like "hmmm maybe I'll walk around for a bit then I can try to figure out how to find my problem" *five hours later * "never mind I give up"
the problem then is you only made the indent 2 spaces instead of 4
Load More Replies...chat.openai.com i use often, except i have stopped using it since i asked it to make some assembly code, 2 hours later it gave me a command that should make the problematic code work and then my python install died.
Load More Replies...Then that feeling when the solution comes to you at 5am. Makes it all worth it 😀
Yeah, I studied a bit of C++ and html in school these years you just never know what you did wrong. Oh you got one paranthesis wrong? Too bad. Your background is another colour? Good luck finding out if your school computer is broken or your code is broken.(I still loved these classes but it just kinda laughs in your face)
The OS version of ducking out for a smoke. I’ll be with you in 10 minutes. Maybe
i got a computer virus cuz i tried to download an mp3 for American idiot (I'm a dum bass)
I just ask my uncle for music and tv shows or music (I don't ask where he gets them from). I hate things like Spotify cause you don't own the song
Load More Replies...I wish I had a quarter for every time I told a friend this, "nothing is free on the internet"! All the "free mouse cursors" and the poker games that cost nothing to play have a price.
There is a surprising amount of free stuff on the internet. And I don't mean dodgy pirated stuff. Opensource and freeware is huge. Just check to make sure it's legit. Great starting point: https://itsfoss.com/websites-for-foss/ edit: Just to be clear the ItsFOSS website is devoted to Linux, but the link above links to sources of free, opensource software for all platforms.
Load More Replies...Another increasingly common theme in the group is artificial intelligence (AI) and all the ways programmers are utilizing it. And it's easy to understand why if we compare a few surveys.
In January 2023, Fishbowl, a social platform owned by employer review site Glassdoor, found that almost 30% of the nearly 4,500 professionals surveyed this month have already used OpenAI’s ChatGPT or another artificial intelligence program in their work. Respondents included workers from Amazon, Bank of America, JPMorgan, Google, Twitter, and Meta.
Unfortunately you need too many versions of linux to do almost everything Windows does. If all the linux creators would band together to create one super version then maybe those of us that aren't programmers could finally dump Windows.
Load More Replies...Meanwhile, Adobe: "I know you're not actively using my products right now, but I'm still going take up most of your processing power and bandwidth running my cloud BS in the background."
How I'd wish to fill a trolley with useless stuff and give it to a microsoft programmer when shopping and tell them if they don't want the item put it back on the shelf.See how they like it
I heart this. I only wish there was a mirror meme of me, as the user, force stopping a sketchy resource-grabbing windows service and then the OS force stopping the computer because the service is required but only documented in a locked drawer in a bricked up room on the Microsoft campus.
Awww made playing minecraft so hard mostly bc i started on swich, then pc, now switch agin bc i got a nintendo account
you just set dns to resolve all scam sites to 127.0.0.1 and so when you click any fake button it will just 404 rather than give you a virus
looks to me as my face is melting. how weird i thought this was correct...
Really annoying when there is no caps lock LED on the keyboard
Load More Replies...Oof i do that and sometimes my mom turns on caps lock and doesn't know
I often forget to switch my keyboard back to English.
Load More Replies...Give up and change your password: "your new password can't be the same as your old password". 🤦♂️
I swear streaming services are the worst about this! I don't know what it is, but I haven't used the app in like a week, and suddenly I'm signed out. So now I try to sign back in with the password STORED IN MY PASSWORD MANAGER from the last time... Username or password not valid. Try again. Username or password not valid. Change password to what is already stored in my password manager. Ok, we'll let you sign in this time. But next time...
Then when you still can't get in - forgot password - follow reset link - new password cannot be the same as old password
Flash forward to this month, and according to a new GitHub programmer survey, 92% of US-based developers are now using AI coding tools both in and outside of work.
After partnering with Wakefield Research to question 500 US-based enterprise developers, GitHub also discovered that 70% of programmers believe AI is actually providing significant benefits to their code.
LOL... I knew someone in a lab who was like this. This person was NOT that much older than me... they were just **FREAKING** out like "What's this ... this ICON thing? HUH? I bet it's taking up ALL this memory" - and proceeded to delete all the shortcuts... I had a very difficult time taking them seriously for the rest of the year...
Once a friend wanted to buy a new monitor and asked me how to get the desktop icons from the old monitor over to the new one. (It took me about three seconds to process all the possible answers and couter questions. *edit for those who are wondering: I finally said something like "Just switch them, the pc handles the rest")
Wouldn’t that work infinitely? (Asking for a friend).
Load More Replies...Have you seen the video where the tech support person takes a screenshot of the person's desktop with the icons arranged in a curse word, then rearranges them, then the person is upset so she sets the screenshot as the background and hides all the icons? https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/12t2e5/the_website_is_down_sales_guy_vs_web_dude/
I remember a son's friend doing that on a Windows PC, to get more space for installing a new game... (note that it works usually on a Mac)
Fun game.... Take a screengrab of someone's desktop, save it, and set it as their desktop, then move ALL their shortcuts to a documents folder. Leave nothing behind.
No, you must bear witness to the horrors of the coming handpocalypse
Load More Replies...I got a good one not too long ago. It's a two part post. I put this pic of my dog Spocks in the A.I. Generator and typed "being really cute with a spider"... Spocks-hat...35336a.jpg
And no s**t, this is what it came up with. Cute-Spock...548a24.gif
In the lower right frame, looks like this guy severely broke his arm above the wrist and didn't get it repaired. That's not the way an arm is supposed to bend.
Not to mention that password hacking is obviously a linear progress and you can determine the time needed at any given point
Load More Replies...I don't see any 'any' key! Stupid bird, this is all your fault!
Load More Replies...A cousin of mine glued an "Any" sticker to the space bar to help her computer illiterate mom with poor English skills in the 80s. That aunt actually can chat in in English these days and learned computer skills up to basic programming later proving there's no age limit to learning if you have a curious attitude.
I call BS, it's a power *button*, not a key. Unless you have a keyboard with a power key, I guess :/
Always happy to upvote pedantry. My kinda people. 🙂
Load More Replies...You have to press the letters A, N, and Y at the same time.
Load More Replies...That makes so much sense, but noooo, the shift-key is not just any-key.
Load More Replies...I had a laptop once that ran so hot that it burnt my leg on the underside of a 1" (2.5cm) thick MDF desk. I think Toshiba may have confused some of the laptop parts with those from one of their microwaves!
I had an HP like that, affectionately nicknamed it "Firebox". It was truly a joy to use in winter!
Load More Replies...IT guy here. Sometimes, we'll put a device in the kitchen freezer if it gets too hot.
The other day, my work laptop was so hot, I had to put it in the fridge!
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omg a bird once died in my school's fan and someone very smart turned the fan on. We had to leave the room
Specifically, developers explained that AI coding tools can help them meet existing performance standards with improved code quality, faster outputs, and fewer production-level incidents.
This is more than just people working on external open-source projects or just messing around. Only 6% of developers said they solely use these tools outside of work, so in other words, today, AI programming tools have become a part of today's business IT.
I see upvote to cat. Upvote both.
Load More Replies...Is it a cat because it's a scripting language instead of a programming language? Technically PHP is too...
does anyone else read jpg like jay-peg? idk i read the rest just saying the letters
However, keep in mind that even though ChatGPT can write a program for these folks, if they don't understand what they're doing in the first place, the result will still be garbage. So we still need to give credit where credit is due.
Developers simply believe AI will give them more time to focus on solution design. They hope to spend more time designing new features and products instead of writing boilerplate code. And I think we'll see if they get what they want on 'Programming Jokes & MeMes' in one form or the other.
That's Cobra, the old MS program from 2006-2014.
Load More Replies...Is this supposed to be a python joke? All I can think of is that those are cobras.
Why does the snake on the right look like they didn't inflate it all the way?
I had to scroll back up, and you're right. Looks like it has a slow puncture.
Load More Replies...I have a python book Bc I’m learning how to code. I don’t know where it is and I don’t care where it is as long as I don’t have to read two pages a day
Yeah but dates is a concept no language has found an easy way of handling that
My issue is idiotic formatting of dates. Take SQL for instance. Ugh. I'm glad I never have to touch SQL frequently.
Load More Replies...Ah. I see your problem - you don't use dates in Javascript. You use prunes.
Ah, but have you ever had to deal with compressed Julian dates? I still have nightmares about Y2K (Yes, I'm old).
True. But even Google can confirm what the REAL REQUIREMENTS ARE, or make sense of the code you have to work with.
99 bugs on the monitor now 99 bugs on the screen Take one down, patch it all up 117 bugs on the monitor now
Load More Replies...99 bugs in the software code, 99 bugs in the code... Take one down, messin' around 1387 bugs and a major SQL exploit in the software code.
One of two reasons I'm not a great programmer is that I get angry when I fix one thing and another breaks...
Second panel expression: Me, every time a website takes longer than usual to load
That's why I switch off updates. They create more bugs than they cure.
And maybe some ai might Photoshop a man in the middle attack as this is obviously not end to end encrypted
Would that not be the opposite of VPN? If the coconut is the internet, he is going through the "service provider" to get to it. A VPN would just be him sucking the coconut directly?
well as others suggested - as long as we don't know what happens in her mouth we can't tell if it's proxy or vpn
Load More Replies...I had a manager who constantly told us to be like Michelin. They stopped trying to reinvent the wheel and just put a new cover on it. This works so well that they got so much free time, people started asking them the best places to eat."
Ok but why the hell poor guy is sitting on a bank? EDIT: clearly bank was not the right word
I haven't done any serious programming in about 15 years, but still find myself slouching back into this position if I'm not careful.
And in ten minutes you need to explain how you got there to your teacher
Writing code that computers can run is easy. Writing code that humans can understand is a skill that takes years to master.
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This is my company laptop! All I did was add two files to SharePoint!
It works a lot of the time. It's a cliche for a reason.
Load More Replies...More like: User: It’s broken! Support: When was the last time you did a full restart? User: just five minutes before I called you! Support: ok let me remote in User: please I needed to get this completed a week ago and it has been broken the whole time! Support: Why didn’t you report it a week ago then? User: I didn’t have time!!! Support: (sees uptime is 48 days - sighs) You need to do a full reboot, not just close the lid. Do you have anything open you need to save before I do a restart? User: I did a restart, I don’t need a restart! I need you to fix it! Why do you people never listen?!?! Support: Your computer has not had a full reboot in over a month. I’ve scheduled a restart in five minutes. Please save any open files. User: I don’t have any open files, go ahead do a restart you will see I’m right! (Restart happens, user has left to get coffee or whatever, support can’t reach them and moves onto other things) User: What did you do to my machine?!?! Support: I quit
That Google suggestions tell more about the user of that pc than it tells about programmers (or Harry Potter)
It's a suggested search, so it says more about the collective user database. If it was just about that pc user it would say "resume search".
Load More Replies...Especially if you studied 10 years of Roman literature after you decided "damn it I'll do software now"
if you install the language "etruscan" on your computer, it may come handy (and yes it is available on Windows)
Load More Replies...I only use about 10% of what I learnt in school/college/university in my job now!
that much? you're counting writing and reading, right?
Load More Replies...Excel is the underdog of all things on computer;)
Load More Replies...That really pissed me off when applying for a job as a programmer. The company employed someone with a History degree and no experience over a someone with "o" levels and 3 years proven experience designing and writing computer systems. When I eventually did get a job with them I ended up having to teach the starters with degrees about computing.
Can someone explain this to me? I got the shift+WASD for gamers but I'm italian and for me the key in the second picture is @.
It's the semi-colon key ';'. A lot of computer languages use it to denote the end of a statement.
Load More Replies...A misplaced ; and your website goes Dali's version
I have never met you but I hate you. How dare you achieve my dreams when I can't?! /s
Load More Replies...I wonder if one day AI will design, manufacturer, and program everything and people will just have theories on how it works but really no one will know for sure. We'll need an AI program to figure what the other AI did.
Honestly I think doing anything while somebody is watching is like that, especially if that someone is a person you like or want to impress
Yup. Me, who's been a technician for 11 years, but will get shaky hands when showing an intern the most basic techniques.
Load More Replies...You add a G, and now the behaviour of the code is changing, and it refuses to compile!
Load More Replies...This is a photo of an astronaut after a long day's EVA going to the Space Bar to unwind.
"Our apologies, at the moment it's busier than usual, please call again next year" *click*
Im heavily tempted to calculate the real number of lines needed but I assume it is way more than 2605200
Coding this way, it would be only 180 lines for the opening move, then 32,400 for black's open.
Load More Replies...Python is a terrible language for game design. I attempted to code euchre into Python, it took me about 200 lines of code just to do the dealing mechanism, and I'm still not quite sure I did that right.
Is that Python? I'm old, I assumed it was BASIC.
Load More Replies...No no, then it would say “battery not found” and “battery health 100%”
Load More Replies...Yeah their annoying but it’s also very easy to learn
Load More Replies...That guy's a lot weaker than most programmers who've been coding for a day...
Reality: my back hurts, one of my two braincells gave up and ran away, I look like I ran away from an insane asylum and I CAN'T STILL FIGURE OUT WHERE DID IT GO WRONG.
Maybe your tinder date is an expert on that subject and you are mansplaining... (kinda annoying that ppl assume that programmers are all men and that women - especially pretty ones - know nothing about it.)
Obviously D. And if you're old enough, replace the word mom with wife and boom! Right answer!!
Remember dial-up? And when Mom picked up the phone and kicked you off your online game? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
Load More Replies...Probably too busy trying to figure out how a Latin prefix meaning "on the same side" is somehow a slur in his mind.
Load More Replies...hmm I'd say "just f*****g do it" is a better translation for "sudo"
Load More Replies..."i am out of control with love for you" but with some changes for the letters to make it fit, ctrl (for control), alt for out, whatever button /| with these two is called for another i
Load More Replies...As a complete beginner that is teaching myself, I found it a good place to start with HTML and CSS, now working on JavaScript.
No usually it's the other way - a totally overperforming pc compiling some dot net framework that could have been a 1kb shell script if someone would know more about coding
Take a butterfly put it on the copy printer, fold the paper to a paper plane and let it fly - that is how close csv is to a database
So you're saying we store the database on the cloud... neat
Load More Replies...CSV is no database - it can't be easily searched, sorted, or broken out into smaller pieces (i.e., reports), and it's absolutely useless for anything other than text and numerical data; however, it's hella space efficient for storing huge data sets.
It can be easily searched, sorted and broken down into smaller pieces, or have you never heard of Excel.
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