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0 pointspvg4y ago0 comments

Right but this is called 'programmer humor'. Plus it's obviously not serious if you think about it for more than 60 seconds.

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mdoms4y ago· 5 in thread

I just took a very quick look at the subreddit (absolutely awful stuff BTW, who finds this crap funny?) and already found 2 instances of people sharing "real" stories in the comments to joke posts. Should both of these be taken as jokes? They are not presented as such.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/u0elnq/com...

> I completely forget the example problem we were doing, but back when I was learning C, we were given sample code to fix. Everything was perfectly formatted, and the program ran without issue like be 99% of the time, but every once in a while, it’d give a totally incorrect value, or throw an error, and it was to teach us all about concurrency and race conditions and how even when we know we have done everything right, there might be something wrong that takes a deeper understanding to idntify. My professor was awesome.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/u0ibli/com...

> In my old team, every line above 400 was considered an error. 2000 lines was a cause to put the development on hold until the end of refactoring.

pvgOP4y ago

The point isn't that there aren't 'real' stories. It's that it makes a lot of sense to evaluate it as a joke, given that it's in a joke forum. And when you do that, it's not that hard to tell it's a joke or at least suspect that it is as likely to be a joke as anything else.

irrational4y ago

> who finds this crap funny?

Apparently 1.9 million people (the number of subscribers).

saagarjha4y ago

The quality went way down after most of them joined.

pessimizer4y ago

The second one is quite obviously a joke.

Nasrudith4y ago

It is a bit Poe's law really. There are plenty of companies with dumb software policies and practices, cargo culting legitimate approaches by treating them as axioms.

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