Programmer jokes

Programmer jokes

GullRaDriel

Member #3,861

September 2003

Tried to translate it from French:

"There are 10 type of guys in the world who understand binary. Those who, and those who don't".

"Code is like shit - it only smells if it is not yours"
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Arthur Kalliokoski

Second in Command

February 2005

Arggghh! There are 10 types of people who understand trinary, those who do, those who don't, and those who've never heard of it.

They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas.

OICW

Member #4,069

November 2003

GullRaDriel said:

"There are 10 type of guys in the world who understand binary. Those who, and those who don't".

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who regularly have sex.

EDIT: Corrected phrasing.

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J-Gamer

Member #12,491

January 2011

Leave the "who understand ...". You are giving away the punchline.

There are 10 types of people: those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who thought this was a binary joke.

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Gideon Weems

Member #3,925

October 2003

What do you call it when a bunch of programmers rub balloons on their heads and string them together?

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OICW

Member #4,069

November 2003

J-Gamer said:

Leave the "who understand ...". You are giving away the punchline.

Yep, quite right, I've just copied Gulls quote and edited it.

J-Gamer

Member #12,491

January 2011

@Gideon: static string?

Johan Halmén

Member #1,550

September 2001

There are 10 type of guys in the world who understand binary.
0: Those who do
1: Those who don't

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Years of thorough research have revealed that the red "x" that closes a window, really isn't red, but white on red background.

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bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

You mean:

1: Those who don't.
10: Those who do.

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Derezo

Member #1,666

April 2001

There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those who understand binary,
those who don't,
and those who weren't expecting a base 3 joke.

"He who controls the stuffing controls the Universe"

Johan Halmén

Member #1,550

September 2001

There are two types of a.cc members. Those who have never completed a game project.

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Years of thorough research have revealed that the red "x" that closes a window, really isn't red, but white on red background.

Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest.

james_lohr

Member #1,947

February 2002

Derezo: good one.

GullRaDriel

Member #3,861

September 2003

Johan have my point ^^

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Gideon Weems

Member #3,925

October 2003

I think Derezo means "11 types of people."

J-Gamer: I would have also accepted "static linking." NEXT: Why'd the programmer's arm never heal?

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Arthur Kalliokoski

Second in Command

February 2005

Derezos joke was what I was trying to remember above, and it's correct.

Those who understand binary, (01)
those who don't, (02)
and those who weren't expecting a base 3 joke. (10)

I can't think of why a programmers arm wouldn't heal without Googling.

They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas.

Gideon Weems

Member #3,925

October 2003

Ahaha, screw me. I get it now. Somebody finally tells it the right way, and I miss it.

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Arthur Kalliokoski

Second in Command

February 2005

I got tired of waiting about the programmers arm healing, and I couldn't find the answer on Google.

Another moldy oldie I was reminded of in Coding Horror:

Why do programmers think OCT 31 and DEC 25 are the same day? The question on the face of it is a bit US centric.

They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas.

OICW

Member #4,069

November 2003

Because OCT31 = DEC25, so Christmas and Hallowen seem like the same day

EDIT: added the spoiler tags.

Arthur Kalliokoski

Second in Command

February 2005

You need to specify OCTAL and DECIMAL for these young'uns.

They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas.

OICW

Member #4,069

November 2003

They ought to know it 8-)

Arthur Kalliokoski

Second in Command

February 2005

I wouldn't be surprised if half of the people here don't know what the long forms mean. OCT is pretty obsolete.

They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas.

OICW

Member #4,069

November 2003

On the other hand I remember few months ago when working on a school software projects, several mates were quite consfused by me using hex constants

Tobias Dammers

Member #2,604

August 2002

Arthur Kalliokoski said:

I wouldn't be surprised if half of the people here don't know what the long forms mean. OCT is pretty obsolete.

You better know what octal is if you want to do any PHP or C or C++, because it'll bite you otherwise. Quick, what does this print:

$i = '00000010';
printf("%d\n", $i);

That, and UNIX file permissions.

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Arthur Kalliokoski

Second in Command

February 2005

The leading 0 without the 'x' is oct, yes, but they'd learn not to do that then, and hardly anybody uses UNIX file permissions.

They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas.

Tobias Dammers

Member #2,604

August 2002

Arthur Kalliokoski said:

The leading 0 without the 'x' is oct, yes, but they'd learn not to do that then, and hardly anybody uses UNIX file permissions.

What if it's user input? What if you're parsing a user-supplied date, and you can't for some reason use a built-in function for that? Example:

// Parses a date in the format DD-MM-YYYY
function parseDate($dateString) {
   list($day, $month, $year) = explode('-', $dateString);
   $day = (int)$day;
   $month = (int)$month;
   $year = (int)$year;
   // expand two-digit years
   if ($year < 50)
       $year += 2000;
   if ($year < 100)
       $year += 1900;
   return new DateTime("$month/$day/$year");
}

Where's the bug?

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