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Need a Good Laugh? Tell Us Your Favorite Coder Jokes.

Help us fill the comments with some hilarious programming jokes. Okay, we'll start:

Q: Why do programmers prefer dark mode? 🌙
A: Because light attracts bugs.

ROFL. 😂 Share your faves in the comments below!


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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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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.

Source: mobile.twitter.com/brenankeller/st...

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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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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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Jigyashu

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Javier Riveros

This is too generic

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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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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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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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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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