30 Of The Funniest Jokes And Memes About All Things Programming (New Pics)
Interview With ExpertWhen people think about programmers, the image that pops into their head is probably a person who is hunched over a computer in a dark corner, relentlessly tapping away on the keyboard with no contact with the outside world. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth. In reality, just like in any other industry, developers come from various backgrounds and have different personalities, making them a diverse group.
To learn more about the day-to-day lives of programmers, we are once again visiting the Programmer Humor subreddit, which is full of jokes and memes perfectly capturing the chaos and struggles of this profession. Scroll down to find them, and don’t forget to check out a conversation with software engineers Evgeny Klimenchenko and Ben Grimwade from the UK, who kindly agreed to tell us more about programming humor.
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Software engineer Evgeny Klimenchenko from the UK believes that the stereotype of programmers being antisocial and dull is quite misleading.
“Programmers often have a rich sense of humour that's often related to their line of work. Their jokes might be technical, but they're definitely there and can be quite witty. Because programmers' humour is quite technical and full of industry jargon, a lot of people don't understand it, and that leads to them believing that we don't have a sense of humour.”
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There's a lot of information available about this. ANY software that goes to space is insanely safe. There are so many rules about this. For instance, none of the devices have an "off" instruction. Just to make sure no one can hit it on accident. The code that goes up to space is horrible by human standards and for a reason, it's designed to be terrible. It's designed to be fixable by sending lines of HEX or Binary to fix it. There's an encryption obviously which is the only thing stopping ME from altering the code on those satellites and rovers. But the reason it can keep working without a dead chip is called "Fault tolerance". CD's have it too. It's really clever. Check this: ------ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jsijhllIA
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Meanwhile, software engineer Ben Grimwade says, “As with any other group or industry, there are those that joke more and those that joke less. I personally feel that if you aren’t having fun and making jokes at work, you are missing out on life. We spend more time at work than with our families, so have fun doing it.”
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As Klimenchenko already mentioned, programming humor is quite niche, overflowing with industry jargon. “It often revolves around different programming languages, algorithms, and software quirks. Programmers love to poke fun at their own challenges and the absurdities they are faced with on a day-to-day basis. We also love our puns,” he fondly shares.
Grimwade adds that programming humor is generally quite dry and leans toward being more sarcastic than what you would find in other areas of life or even professions.
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Klimenchenko shares that the most popular ongoing inside joke among developers that reflects their struggles perfectly is “It works on my machine." He explains that it’s a good way to deflect a code that doesn’t run elsewhere. “Everyone understands that this is just a joke, and if it works on one machine, it should work on most.”
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googleling is an artform - especially when you don't even know the name of the thing you are looking for. Furthermore the internet has now become so poluted with all kinds of made up nonsense, that knowing how to filter it out, so you only get the usefull parts, is a great skill.
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“Another one is we love our "Infinite Loops" jokes—jokes about code that never stops running. Or similarly jokes about "recursions," that one might be hard to explain, haha,” adds Klimenchenko.
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This refers to the July 19, 2024 outage of all Crowdstrike services, that caused $5.4 billion in losses in what might be considered "the largest IT outage in history", all stemming from a single faulty software update pushed on a Friday afternoon (a big no-no). CrowdStrike supplies a security software called Falcon to thousand of companies. The software embeds itself into the Windows kernel, and the update made impossible to boot the PCs affected.
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here;s this infinite paradox loop in Python: def process_wishes(wishes): wish1 = lambda: not wishes[1]() # Do opposite of next wish wish2 = lambda: not wishes[2]() # Don't fulfill third wish wish3 = lambda: not wishes[0]() # Ignore first wish wishes = [wish1, wish2, wish3] try: result = wishes[0]() print("Wishes processed successfully") return result except RecursionError: print("Stack overflow: Infinite wish loop detected") raise except Exception as e: print(f"Critical error: {str(e)}") raise
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Grimwade additionally tells us that programmers love a good pun and often joke about the plethora of misunderstandings that happen with other departments. “Like the sales teams that sell software to clients telling the clients that we already have it (when we don’t), and then tell us to write it by the next day, or the product team who tell customers how the system should work and then tell us something different.”
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Awww. I do try to be a good senior dev. I hope I make the junior devs feel good about their work.
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If you’re interested in knowing even more about the tech world or are a beginner looking for guidance, both engineers have written various articles helping others navigate the industry more easily. For instance, Grimwade has published a post on how to ace a software engineering interview where he shares various tips and tricks. On Klimenchenko’s blog, you can find how to build an app only using Copilot and an article explaining that front-end testing is for everyone.
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Several people were killed because of it, but honestly if you look at the numbers; kilometres driven by humans divided by accidents still exceeds the same equation driven by "AI". And George Hotz absolutely f*****g SMASHED this with a piece of software he wrote for phones and obliterates anything written by multi-trillion dollar companies
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That is the valuation if the startup is in San Fransisco. The exact same company with the exact same product and same developers started in New York is worth $200 million. Started in Chicago it's worth $100 million. Started in Philadelphia it's worth $500 thousand. Company valuations are purely based on perception, and not on reality. It's why Tesla is worth more than every other car manufacturer on Earth put together.
Klimenchenko signed off by saying, “It's wonderful to see programming humour getting the spotlight! It's a great way to bring the community together and make the field more approachable to others.”
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Well I'd buy a lot of things like multiple plot of land in good places with that money then I'd use most of the billion dollars building houses on them to sell or rent out :)
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Got halfway through this, scrolled back to the top "Ooohhhh, I thought it said 90s jokes..."
Austeja, see that long button at the bottom of the keyboard? It's a space key, please use it
That's how the titles of these posts are formatted on the originating subreddit; the only difference is that the capitalization here is messed up
Load More Replies...Hey quick question why do none of the BP titles have spaces in them? It's very distracting.
It's because that's how those posts are titled in the original subreddit, except the capitalization is different.
Load More Replies...Got halfway through this, scrolled back to the top "Ooohhhh, I thought it said 90s jokes..."
Austeja, see that long button at the bottom of the keyboard? It's a space key, please use it
That's how the titles of these posts are formatted on the originating subreddit; the only difference is that the capitalization here is messed up
Load More Replies...Hey quick question why do none of the BP titles have spaces in them? It's very distracting.
It's because that's how those posts are titled in the original subreddit, except the capitalization is different.
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