35 ‘Shockingly’ Good Programmer Jokes And Memes From This Online Group (New Pics)

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That’s me. Oh, and write good comments(this should always be the case).

When I first started as a programmer I had to update/maintain a program my boss (small company) had written. He was incredibly proud of this one key equation/selection statement that was nested about a dozen layers deep and was driven by 5-6 different data fields. I needed to add one more variable to the selection criteria. After trying for almost a week to parse and fully comprehend his majestic equation I finally gave up and re-wrote it in an easily documented, and easily maintained (and probably much slower to execute) design. His single statement ended up as almost 3 pages of code, but when I had to add yet another criteria to it later it only took about 10 minutes.

But terse code is less likely to make the linter squelp about the line being too wide.

Isn't that what comments are for?

Dear Peter Nistor even if it rhymes, don't work for Accor!

I encountered the same problem at a former employer. My colleague's name was R. Stone, and he had to have the email stoner@employer.thingy

That's not how initials work.

It's Mary Elizabeth Cumins all over again!

In the other one, Bill Tchavlovsky was the help desk tech?

Never fails.

I have friend who works in Facebook in IT department. He literally changes cartridges in printers.

As a machine tech I get asked issues about Word Or setting up Outlook.

I mean, I can try googling the error code on the printer. But so could you....

So true!

*do not use global variables.

I lol'd sooo hard :)))

God that one hit me hard

Finally! One I understand!

When AI becomes sentient it’s coming for the people that made this… 🤣

"Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer...do..."

Goodnight, HAL.

I just flashed on the scene in 2001 when Dave shut down HAL: D..a...i...s...y...

Well... thats kind of brave... Crazy but brave

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.

In JavaScript, semicolons are added automatically so you don't have to write them. BUT, this can lead to subtle hard to debug bugs so it's best to just type them;

Also, Python doesn't have semicolons.

Some IDE's will do that, and I can't stress enough how bad of an idea that is, for when you spend two days looking for the processing bug it creates.

wait python doesnt use semicolons at the end of lines though

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I'll go with cry

Write comments in your code. Lots of comments. Write why you used this particular syntax when you fixed a problem, you won't remember after a while. Write a title/explanation for every sub part. Comment, comment, comment.