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Ben Halpern on April 08, 2023

Help us fill the comments with some hilarious programming jokes. Okay, we'll start: Q: Why do programmers prefer dark mode? 🌙 A: Because light at...
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Daniel Intempesta

A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicbksjdhd.

First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.

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Anthony Fung
  • and parallel task programming

The two most difficult things in computing are

  • naming
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Matt Eland

Don't forget off by one errors.

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Anthony Fung

I'm going to hide the fact that I hadn't heard of that one by saying "that's why it's not on the list - it's off by one" :)

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Wiktor Wandachowicz
  • and change of requirements specification
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longmenzhitong
  • and how to control yourself not to hit the head of the product manager
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Ali Sina Yousofi

Why do programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas?
Because Oct 31 equals Dec 25.

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Adarsh Madrecha

Can anyone explain this joke?

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wdev733 • Edited

Oct (Octal) 31 = 8 * 3 + 1 = 25
Dec(Decimal) 25 = 2 * 10 + 5 = 25

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Edited

That's a great question, and after reading it, I totally needed to write down my own collection of programming wisdom.

“The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris” ― Larry Wall,

There are only two really difficult things in programming: cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors.

UNIX is sexy: who | grep -i single | date ; cd ~ ; unzip ; touch ; strip ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; uptime ; unmount ; sleep

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.  We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”

Even more at ➡ jmfayard.dev/programming-quotes/

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Christopher Glikpo ⭐

Why did the programmer quit his job? He didn't get arrays.

Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs.

Why did the database administrator leave his wife? He found out she was normalizing their relationship.

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Matt Eland

Yeah, those one-to-many relationships will do you in every time.

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Cy "kkm" K'Nelson

The comment is funnier than the OP joke! (Sorry, OP.)

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cubiclesocial

I prefer light mode. Once the bugs are attracted, it makes it easier to squash them.

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wdev733

A programmer was smoking.
A girl came to him and said. "Do not smoke. Don't you see this? It says - Warning! Smoking kills"
A programmer replied. "We don't care about warning. we are only interested in errors"

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Roden

true programmer wouldn't even pay attention to a girl 🚬

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Cy "kkm" K'Nelson

Hwat??? No way!!!

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Tracy Gilmore

My two favourite computing jokes are quite old.

How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb? None, it's a hardware fault.

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't .

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Savvas Stephanides

An SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables. It walks up to them and asks: 'Can I join you?'

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Cy "kkm" K'Nelson

I first heard this one some 25 years ago. Authorship is perhaps impossible to establish. This is a definition of folklore!

0xA programmers

0xA young programmers began to work online,
One didn't pay for Internet, and then there were 9.

9 young programmers used copies that they made,
But one was caught by FBI, and then there were 8.

8 young programmers discussed about heaven,
One said "It's Windows 95!", and then there were 7.

7 young programmers found bugs they want to fix,
But one was fixed by the bug, and then there were 6.

6 young programmers were testing the hard drive,
One got the string "Format complete", and then there were 5.

5 young programmers were running the FrontDoor,
The BBS of one was hacked, and then there were 4.

4 young programmers worked using only C,
One said some good about Pascal, and then there were 3.

3 young programmers didn't know what to do,
One tried to call the on-line help, and then there were 2.

2 young programmers were testing what they done,
One got a virus in his brain, and then there was 1.

1 young programmer was mighty as a hero,
But tried to speak with user, and then there were 0.

Boss cried:"Oh, where is the program we must have?!"
And fired one programmer, and then there were 0xFF.

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Matt Eland

PHP.

That's the joke!

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cubiclesocial • Edited

Yup. Medicare is a bit of a joke these days.

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medmor

Programmers don't try baseball. They are afraid of catching errors.

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Mohammed Hamza (Horse Radish) • Edited

I think I understood what single letters in prgramming languages meant
C = "C , how easy it is "
R = " if you Cant figure it out , u R n big trouble || U R in the wrong field"
PHP = " Pee , in a Heat Pipe"
thats it ,

hope you have a good laugh and good day or night

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Mohammed Hamza (Horse Radish)

so a CS wife was in labor then gave birth , the father asked : is it a boy or a girl ? the CS wife said yes .
it`s OR logic humor

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Mohammed Hamza (Horse Radish)

burst laughing first time I heard it in a Boolean logic video

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Dominik • Edited

Great reading :) ... my most favorite is @javierriveros "This is too generic".
I have couple as well ... maybe not a joke but reason to cry when you hear this.

  1. It works, so ...
  2. Why do you need do this?

I would to point that the second one is not a question of scrum master nor pair partner when it would be legit.

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Dave Aronson

How many Rails devs does it take to query a database?

N+1!

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philsalti

A guy walks into a bar and asks for 1.4 root beers. The bartender says “I’ll have to charge you extra, that’s a root beer float”. The guy says “In that case, better make it a double. Copied from funnpedia

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Stephen

A Hardware Engineer, A Manager and a Programmer had to go offsite to a meetng and they shared the one car. On the way they went up a steep hill. Once over the top the car picked up speed but the brakes failed. Faster and faster down the other side, terrifying them as it went round the bends at speed. Eventually they reached the bottom and rolled to a stop. They all got out, sighing with relief. The hardware engineer said " I think we should remove the wheel and see what went wrong with the brakes". The manager said, "I think we should call someone to come and look at the brakes".

"No no" said the Programmer, " I think we should push it back up the hill and see if it does it again."

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Jo

Not my joke but I saw someone once say something like (and I will butcher this):

What do you call someone who knows how to code?
A programmer

What do you call a coder who can't spell?
Poor grammar

What do you call a programmer who can't code?
A poor gamer.

Was cute.

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Moggy

what did the needle say to the bitcoin miner, there is a stack overflow

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James Robert Lund III

What's a systems engineer's favorite entree? C-food

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Neha

Person 1:Talk Data to Me!!

Person 2: // No Comment

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Abhik Banerjee

What did garbage collector say to the dangling pointer?
"That's my spot"

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Yang Li

One day MySQL entered a restaurant and walked to the tables in the middle, said:
"May I join two tables?"

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Jigyashu

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Javier Riveros

This is too generic

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Marcin Szolke/Scholke

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