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How to prove you are a programmer in one sentence?

Let's discuss what would you say in one sentence?

I always count things from 0, 1, 2... 😛

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Dan Fockler

You know there is a huge difference between a thread and a string.

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Brandin Chiu

Start every conversation with "hello world".

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marcellothearcane

The classic "there are only 10 types of person..."

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Adrian Perea

How about we go back to localhost?

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Mark Felchlin

When you think you got rid of a bug and two more exist now.

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Paweł Kowalski

Throw random Knuth quote. ;)

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Madza • Edited

Instead of 'Hip hip hooray' use a shorthand: ['hip', 'hip']

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Divyajyoti Ukirde

Programmer's life -> Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'life' of undefined

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code-minion

That implies that the programmer here is undefined. Or perhaps a basic user tried to cast to programmer but failed, resulting in undefined

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Gaurav Saini • Edited

Sometimes I send text messages like this - hey(); and it's not even intentional. I guess it's more like second nature for me now.

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Guillermo Alfonso Morales

I'm a simple algorithm trying to avoid bugs.

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arasrezaei • Edited

While(noSuccess)
tryAgain()
if (dead) break;

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Mike Talbot ⭐ • Edited

I thunk therefore I am.

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chimdipetercollins

I live on stack overflow 🙄

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Ben Sinclair

"Hi, I'm a programmer."

I'm not sure of a better way to prove it than claiming it.

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aachh • Edited

- "Better save that file one more time."
- "What for?"
- "Just do it."