October 29, 2008
· Filed under Humor, Programming · Tagged Humor, Programming
I was a little down today, so I decided to cheer myself up. At first I watched The Office, but after dinner I was thinking about Computer Science, so I remembered that I had a little stockpile of humorous Programmer jokes! Well, I suppose it it your lucky day, I’ve decided to post a few (and link to the sources of course). None of these are mine, but I hope they brighten your day 
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- We don’t really understand it, so we’ll give it to the programmers.
- Programming is a lot like sex. One mistake and you could have to support it the rest of your life.
- You never finish a program, you just stop working on it.
many more here
- After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.
- Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
- If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
- If you can’t understand it, it is intuitively obvious.
- Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner.
- It is never wise to let a piece of electronic equipment know that you are in a hurry.
- Any tool dropped will fall where it can cause the most damage.
full list here!
October 25, 2008
· Filed under Programming, Web 2.0 · Tagged C++, Java, Programming
As a very amatuer programmer, I find myself looking for answers all the time. Most of the time I have to ask a professor or another student when I need help. However, other times I find myself going online, on Sun’s Java forums, or some other java site. It seems to me that every time I look something up, I see posts asking for help. Though there are many helpful people, a lot of them can be not so nice- okay they can be downright nasty. So far, Stack Overflow is quite the opposite of this. 
One can freely ask programming questions in a fairly “Web 2.0-like” fashion.
It is a lot like Digg, where those with the most popular questions/answers are voted up or down, based on the answers and quality of the question. Another cool feature is that one needs to earn “reputation points” in order to vote questions up/down. One gets this “rep” by answering someone’s question with a helpful answer (much like the “best answer” option on Yahoo! Answers). The site is really informative, and can be quite humorous as well. For example, this question asks “What’s your favorite programming joke?” Helpful and Humorous, Stack Overflow is a great site for both amatuer and experienced programmers, of any language!
