Subj: Programmer Jokes
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Subj: Programmer Jokes (Includes 10 jokes and articles, 01724n,1,cf) |
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Computer Bug from Millanimations |
Also see COMPUTERS3 - 'Jesus
And Satan Have Programming Contest'
NERD file - 'Nerd
Letters From Camp'
FROG file - 'Talking
Frog And The Programmer'
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Subj: How
To Hire A Programmer
by Kevin D. Weeks
From: Ossama's Laugh on 5/23/98
Forget about competency tests,
previous work history,
personality profiles like the
MBTI, reference-checking,
and follow-up interviews.
After years of rigorous and
admittedly maverick research,
I've identified five key
characteristics you can use
to quickly assess the fit-
ness of a programmer candidate.
I humbly submit that
if you follow my advice and
check for these attributes,
you'll shorten your hiring cycle
and simultaneously
increase your success rate.
The best programmers prefer cats
as pets. I've canvassed
hundreds of programmers on the
subject of preferred pets,
and despite the odd ferret-lover
(and believe me, ferret-
lovers are odd), time after
time cats turn out to be the
non-human companion of choice.
Think about it; it makes
perfect sense because programmers
are human cats. Cats
are night animals, as are programmers.
Cats are indepen-
dent, like programmers.
Cats prefer to be left alone
except when they want attention,
and so do programmers.
Cats are notoriously elegant
animals and... uhm, well...
programmers love elegant code.
What's more, software
guru Meilir Page-Jones has likened
managing programmers
to herding cats.
Turning to the next characteristic,
programmers have a
highly developed sense of the
absurd. And if you think
about it, this makes no sense
at all. I don't know why
so many programmers can quote
The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy or know the entire
Naughty Hungarian Phrase
Book skit, but they do.
The next time you interview a
programmer candidate throw a
"You're all individuals"
at him and see what he says.
Perhaps a sense of the absurd
matters because so much
of what developers put up with
is absurd - absurd
schedules, absurd requirements,
absurd hours. Treating
the absurdities of the average
development process with
humor makes developers' jobs
much easier.
Developers are usually science-fiction
fans. Great
programmers love technology,
especially technology that
doesn't yet exist. You're
in a business where the only
constant is change, and you
need developers who don't
mind a few arrows in their backs.
Make sure your
candidate has read Robert Heinlein's
The Moon Is a Harsh
Mistress. And remember, every
programmer worth her salt
knows what grok means.
Many developers also are musicians,
painters, or photographers.
Some will claim this is
because both programming and
artistic endeavors require
great creativity. They're
wrong. It's because program-
ming is more like painting than
engineering. Like
painters, when programmers make
mistakes, they just code
right over them.
Then there's the matter of puns.
I've witnessed online
pun-fests that lasted as long
as a week, with as many as
30 programmers trying to outdo
each other. I've noticed
that some participants are punctilious
about staying
with the root word, while others
approach them as pun-
tests where misspelling words
is permitted. Again, the
predilection makes perfect sense.
Programming is about
using language to accomplish
something, and programmers
have a highly evolved appreciation
of how a language can
be manipulated to specific ends.
Puns are ways of both
displaying a mastery of language
and honing it.
So there you have it. Look
for developers who love cats,
quote Monty Python, read Heinlein,
play guitar, and are
accomplished punsters.
If you find all these characteris-
tics in a single individual,
hire that person immediately
- confident you're hiring a
truly great developer.
VB Tech Journal
January 1998
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Subj: The
Programmer's Vacation (DU)
(Also see 'Shepherd
Makes A Bet' in COWS-SHEEP)
A hard-working computer programmer
finally took a vacation.
While hiking in the mountains,
he came upon a shepherd
tending a flock of sheep.
Taking a fancy to the sheep, he
asked the shepherd, "If I can
guess how many sheep you have,
can I have one?"
The shepherd thought this request
odd, but, knowing there
was little chance of guessing
correctly, agreed.
"You've got 287 sheep," the programmer
said. To the
shepherd's astonishment, it
was the correct number.
The shepherd told the man he'd
guessed correctly and to
go ahead and pick out a sheep
to take home. But, as soon
as the programmer picked up
a small sheep and started to
carry it away, the shepherd
said, "Wait a minute. You
have to give me a chance, too.
If I can guess what you
do for a living, can I
have that sheep back?"
Figuring there was little chance
the shepherd would guess
correctly, the programmer went
along, only to be shocked
when the shepherd said, "You're
a computer programmer,
right?"
"How did you know?" asked the programmer.
The shepherd said, "Put down
the dog and we'll talk about
it."
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Subj: Programmer
& Engineer Bet On Plane (S260b, DU)
From: thebartend on 1/23/2002
(See 'Two Airplane
Passengers Talk' in SHIT file)
A Programmer and an Engineer
are sitting next to each other
on a long flight from LA to
NY. The Programmer leans over
to the Engineer and asks if
he would like to play a fun game.
The Engineer just wants to take
a nap, so he politely
declines and rolls over to the
window to catch a few winks.
The Programmer persists and explains
that the game is real
easy and a lotta fun.
He explains "I ask you a question,
and if you don't know the answer,
you pay me $5. Then you
ask me a question, and if I
don't know the answer, I'll pay
you $5." Again, the Engineer
politely declines and tries to
get to sleep.
The Programmer, now somewhat
agitated, says, "OK, if you do
not know the answer you pay
me $5, and if I don't know the
answer, I'll pay you $50!"
This catches the Engineer's
attention, and he sees no end
to this torment unless he
plays, so he agrees to the game.
The Programmer asks the first
question. "What's the distance
from the earth to the moon?"
The Engineer doesn't say a
word, but reaches into his wallet,
pulls out a five dollar
bill and hands it to the Programmer.
Now, it's the Engineer's turn.
He asks the Programmer "What
goes up a hill with three legs,
and comes down on four?"
The Programmer looks up at him
with a puzzled look. He
takes out his laptop computer
and searches all of his
references. He taps into
the Airphone with his modem and
searches the net and the Library
of Congress. Frustrated,
he sends e-mail to his co-workers
-- all to no avail.
After about an hour, he wakes
the Engineer and hands him
$50. The Engineer politely
takes the $50 and turns away to
try to get back to sleep.
The Programmer, more than a
little miffed, shakes the Engineer
and asks "Well, so what
is the answer?" Without
a word, the Engineer reaches into
his wallet, hands the Programmer
$5, and turns away to get
back to sleep.
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Subj: Software
& Hardware Engineers And Manager's Car Stops
From: Internet Humor Archive (DU)
(Also see 'Three
Computer People Have A Car Problem' - COMPUTERS3
and see 'Car
Stops For Three Engineers' in ENGINEER3)
A software engineer, hardware
engineer and department manager
were on their way to a meeting
in Switzerland. They were
driving down a steep mountain
road when suddenly the brakes
failed. The car careened
out of control, bouncing off guard
rails until it miraculously
ground to a scraping halt along
the mountainside. The
occupants of the car were unhurt, but
they had a problem. They
were stuck halfway down the mountain
in a car with no brakes, and
the weather was getting bad.
"I know" said the hardware engineer.
"I've got my Swiss army
knife with me. I can strip
down the car's braking system,
isolate the fault, fix it, and
we'll be on our way."
"No," said the manager. " Let's
schedule some meetings,
propose a Vision Statement,
formulate a Mission Statement,
define Achievable Goals, and
through a process of Continuous
Improvement, find a solution
to the Critical Problems and
we'll be on our way."
"Wait," said the software engineer.
"Before we do anything,
shouldn't we push the car back
to the top of the mountain
and see if it happens again?"
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Subj: Short
Programmer Jokes
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Subj: Computer
Programmer's Credo #73: (S234, S642a)
From: trashlaughs on 7/24/2001
Documentation is like sex:
When it is good, it is VERY
good;
and when it's bad, it's still
better than nothing at all.
From: humorlist-digest V1 #201 on 97-09-19
(DU)
Programming today is a race
between software engineers
striving to build bigger and
better idiot-proof programs,
and the Universe trying to produce
bigger and better
idiots. So far, the Universe
is winning.
-- Rich Cook
From: Daemonic Funnies Page on 12/1/97
(DU)
The most important thing in
the programming language is
the name. A language will
not succeed without a good
name. I have recently
invented a very good name and now
I am looking for a suitable
language.
-- D. E. Knuth, 1967
From: pns on 11/25/2001 (S276c, DU)
"Programming is like sex.
One mistake and you have to
support it for the rest of your
life." -- Michael Sinz
From: LABLaughs.com on 10/4/2002 (S296b,
DU)
There are two ways of constructing
a software design;
one way is to make it so simple
that there are obviously
no deficiencies, and the other
way is to make it so
complicated that there are no
obvious deficiencies. The
first method is far more difficult.
-- C. A. R. Hoare
From: LABLaughs.com on 10/23/2002 (S299b,
DU)
C makes it easy to shoot yourself
in the foot; C++ makes
it harder, but when you do,
it blows away your whole leg.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup
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