The coding humor thread. - Page 8

Loedown · 31 March 2014, 08:07

I found this on Cheezeburger

TCD · 31 March 2014, 08:37

That one made me

Loedown · 31 March 2014, 09:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by TCD

That one made me

I laughed too when I found it, programming PIC reminds me of that

Herpes · 06 April 2014, 18:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loedown

I found this on Cheezeburger:
99 little bugs in the code
99 little bugs in the code
Take one down, patch it around
117 little bugs in the code

Jesus, that's so true!

Thanks.

Photon · 10 May 2014, 23:21

Made this for a comment on a Stack Overflow question.

Lonewolf10 · 10 May 2014, 23:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by photon

lol

Photon · 17 May 2014, 20:37

A quick q: did anyone get the irony?

Another one: (got a bunch of these, building up a stash of these for use in my coding articles)

Photon · 26 May 2014, 23:24

Psst, made a bunch of these for the new Copperhade.Org site I launched Saturday if you're interested

Shoonay · 07 September 2014, 15:29

If Rammstein did code...

Mrs Beanbag · 02 February 2016, 23:52

How To Criticize Computer Scientists
or
Avoiding Ineffective Deprecation And
Making Insults More Pointed

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/...criticize.html

Mrs Beanbag · 22 June 2016, 11:25

[ Show youtube player ]

Thorham · 27 July 2016, 16:44

idrougge · 27 July 2016, 17:30

Haha.

Mrs Beanbag · 13 August 2016, 20:15

@thorham

...makefiles *ahem*

Photon · 15 April 2019, 22:18

After tonight's topic, I felt I had to make amends by adding a Joke of the Day to Coppershade

phx · 16 April 2019, 17:00

Looks like Jackie Chan!

redblade · 14 October 2020, 11:00

Saw this when I was looking at Atari ST programming manuals

roondar · 14 October 2020, 13:26

Though it was devastating back then, by now I can see the humour of it.

So, when I went to do my first internship ever, I ended up at a company that used a version of Borland C with a fancy IDE. I was still 19 and had never heard of things like source control and as for backups, well who needs stinking backups? The company I worked at felt the same way: no backups, no source control. Management felt that just added to the costs without any gain (after all, nothing had ever gone wrong before). You get the idea.

As it turns out, the very recently released new version of the Borland C IDE we used had a "bit of a bug". We never found out how this happened, but one day all our code for our biggest (well only, really) project stopped compiling with thousands of errors. It turned out that someone had pressed "save all" and the IDE had complied - it had saved all source files, even the ones that hadn't been changed.

And while saving all the files, it also somehow changed the ASCII value of every fourth character (per line) up or down by exactly 1. So a B might be an A or a C. But more crucially, a = could become a < or an >, an < could become a ; or a = and a > could become a = or a ?...

We never discovered what caused it and it only changed the files for that one project. Virus scan was negative and the problem never ever reappeared after we changed IDE's.

It took us months to debug all the problems this caused. Strangely enough, management did want a daily backup after that. No source control though, as that would clearly just be spending money for no gain

jotd · 14 October 2020, 21:52

Horrible story!

Reminds me of a C++ project using Visual C++ back in 1999.

We had Zenith PCs (pure crap) and one Dell PC (good stuff)

When compiling a particular file, the zenith PCs had a tendency to crash with a BSOD. And since we often hit "build" without saving first, the save was done prior to the build, but the file was completely blank because of instant BSOD!

BUT that worked perfectly on the Dell PC.

So when someone had to work on that particular part of the software, they used the Dell PC. Other parts of the software (also C++, same project) didn't cause any issues with the Zenith PCs... Go figure.

(we had source control, but we lost hours of work because of this bug before we understood that those crappy Zenith PCs were buggy)

saimon69 · 14 October 2020, 23:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Photon

A quick q: did anyone get the irony?

Another one: (got a bunch of these, building up a stash of these for use in my coding articles)

For tracker musicians would be this:

31 March 2014, 08:07	#141
Loedown Precious & fragile things Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 1,946	I found this on Cheezeburger Attached Thumbnails

14 October 2020, 11:00	#157
redblade Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Middle Earth Age: 40 Posts: 2,127	If Kerningham & Ritchie The C Programming Language went with a cover like this Saw this when I was looking at Atari ST programming manuals Attached Thumbnails

14 October 2020, 13:26	#158
roondar Registered User Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 3,408	Though it was devastating back then, by now I can see the humour of it. So, when I went to do my first internship ever, I ended up at a company that used a version of Borland C with a fancy IDE. I was still 19 and had never heard of things like source control and as for backups, well who needs stinking backups? The company I worked at felt the same way: no backups, no source control. Management felt that just added to the costs without any gain (after all, nothing had ever gone wrong before). You get the idea. As it turns out, the very recently released new version of the Borland C IDE we used had a "bit of a bug". We never found out how this happened, but one day all our code for our biggest (well only, really) project stopped compiling with thousands of errors. It turned out that someone had pressed "save all" and the IDE had complied - it had saved all source files, even the ones that hadn't been changed. And while saving all the files, it also somehow changed the ASCII value of every fourth character (per line) up or down by exactly 1. So a B might be an A or a C. But more crucially, a = could become a < or an >, an < could become a ; or a = and a > could become a = or a ?... We never discovered what caused it and it only changed the files for that one project. Virus scan was negative and the problem never ever reappeared after we changed IDE's. It took us months to debug all the problems this caused. Strangely enough, management did want a daily backup after that. No source control though, as that would clearly just be spending money for no gain Last edited by roondar; 14 October 2020 at 13:33. Reason: I got my age a bit wrong :P

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31 March 2014, 08:37	#142
TCD HOL/FTP busy bee Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Germany Age: 46 Posts: 31,518	That one made me

10 May 2014, 23:21	#145
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17 May 2014, 20:37	#147
Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,602	A quick q: did anyone get the irony? Another one: (got a bunch of these, building up a stash of these for use in my coding articles)

26 May 2014, 23:24	#148
Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,602	Psst, made a bunch of these for the new Copperhade.Org site I launched Saturday if you're interested

07 September 2014, 15:29	#149
Shoonay Global Caturator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Porando Age: 43 Posts: 6,105	If Rammstein did code...

02 February 2016, 23:52	#150
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Thorham Computer Nerd Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Rotterdam/Netherlands Age: 47 Posts: 3,751

27 July 2016, 17:30	#153
idrougge Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Stockholm Posts: 4,332	Haha.

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Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,602	After tonight's topic, I felt I had to make amends by adding a Joke of the Day to Coppershade

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phx Natteravn Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Herford / Germany Posts: 2,496	Looks like Jackie Chan!

14 October 2020, 21:52	#159
jotd This cat is no more Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: FRANCE Age: 52 Posts: 8,161	Horrible story! Reminds me of a C++ project using Visual C++ back in 1999. We had Zenith PCs (pure crap) and one Dell PC (good stuff) When compiling a particular file, the zenith PCs had a tendency to crash with a BSOD. And since we often hit "build" without saving first, the save was done prior to the build, but the file was completely blank because of instant BSOD! BUT that worked perfectly on the Dell PC. So when someone had to work on that particular part of the software, they used the Dell PC. Other parts of the software (also C++, same project) didn't cause any issues with the Zenith PCs... Go figure. (we had source control, but we lost hours of work because of this bug before we understood that those crappy Zenith PCs were buggy)

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