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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

BUT WHY IS THE RAM GONE?!?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

RAM is temporary, meeting the minimum viable product standard is forever

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

COBOL has entered the chat: If it ain't broke don't fix it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Given the engineer's amendment to "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." is usually "If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.", I can only surmise that COBOL must be one of those languages that are so terrible that they deter their programmers from wanting to do that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

I once had to modify some COBOL code. It's a highly organized language, not terrible. But because it's old there's a shortage of people now who are good at it or want to learn it. You pretty much have to decide your career is going to be working on old code.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

I loathe that line

[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

If it ain’t broke… maintain it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

+1 - the word "loathe" doesn't get used often enough. The only time I remember hearing it in a movie was in Sixteen Candles.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

All fun and games till the PO requests some new feature or change and some poor soul has to add that into your code trying not to break it

Bonus points if the poor soul is you

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

Faster to rewrite the whole thing

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The Pirate's Code Style and Documentation Standard....be more like guidelines.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

My boss once asked me whether their entrance test was too hard after several candidates sent him something that wouldn't even run.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Classic write-up!

Although, now that I'm an interviewer, I kind of despise FizzBuzz, because nobody thinks clearly during a high pressure interview.

Whenever possible, I love to talk with a candidate about some concrete past source code they claim to have written. I've better luck putting the candidate at ease and then talking through their contributions to the code.

Of course, when I get enough candidates who shared source code, I don't even invite the ones who didn't share source code for an interview.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

I thought my entrance test was far too easy, I only had to create a blog in my web framework and show doing the basics like validations, secure parameters, etc.

I learned later on that most couldn’t pass because they came from other languages and thought they could get by without knowing anything.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That's an instant ego boost

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Should working code even be part of an interview? Seems like a situation rife with abuse.

Need free contractors? Just put your code issues up as a 4hr take home interview test.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

how the applicant thinks breaks down problems and handles how to answer them matters more than if the code is actually functional on the spot

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 hours ago

Pseudocode/general thought process walkthrough should be the only thing imo. Oh no, the interviewee forgot a semicolon, so he is trash at coding and is a no-fit is complete bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

One guy completed it, so it was just perfect

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago

It worksish, but look at it the wrong way and it'll collapse entirely.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

I wrote "some code" back when I was a child, if you asked me to explain how it works all I could tell you is "through the power of santa's little helper".