Programming Circlejerk: Snap Your Code Up

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/fp_weenie • Nov 04 '19

I was confused why so many people kept saying they love the sound of my $10 keyboard when I do live streams, and it just hit me: It's not the keyboard. It's Dvorak. People are hearing what it sounds like when fingers travel more efficiently across the keyboard.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/gahagg • Apr 13 '21

"cat", short for "C++ Analysis Tool", is a command line utility designed for analyzing a C++ program and displaying which lines of code are potentially unsafe

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/porkslow • Oct 20 '16

Garbage millennial websites

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseCondition • Feb 22 '18

10x pub coder scales in two dimensions

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/TheTrotters • Feb 19 '21

Breaking: Mars becomes the second planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/[deleted] • Jul 10 '17

Why not try programming?

745 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/OrangePhi • Aug 27 '17

ELECTRON

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/likes_purple • Jan 24 '25

Leetcode has created a generation of illiterate programmers

news.ycombinator.com

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/cmov • Oct 20 '21

Go or Golang is an open-source, statistically-typed, multi-purpose programming language that was introduced by Google in 2007. It has the speed of Python combined with the security benefits of C and C++.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/fp_weenie • Sep 26 '19

When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/linkedlust • Mar 04 '18

Senior engineer at GitHub blocks anyone who 👎 his comments using GitHub's own reaction system

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/First_Cardinal • Feb 04 '21

Go is the COVID-19 of languages; it spread really fast, it didn’t seem that bad at first, but it sucks and I hate it

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseIsWebScale • Oct 05 '20

"Telling a programmer there's already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there's already a song about love"

546 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/spookthesunset • Jun 05 '19

What no one really wants to admit here on YC is that the userbase here is something like the top .01% of (intelligence / literacy / analytical skills).

news.ycombinator.com

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/IDoCodingStuffs • Feb 08 '19

I worked for a company that used... a machine learning algorithm that combined the personality test results with data from people's resumes to determine which candidates were the best fit... The system saw we had lots of managers named Michael, so it kept recommending managers named Michael

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/PowerOfLove1985 • Feb 11 '20

“We already store data. In a database. It works well.”

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/[deleted] • Dec 15 '20

PS: You may have noticed that I typed "go" instead of "Go" in most of this post. This is on purpose; I don't believe the language deserves getting a capital "G".

blog.juliobiason.me

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/mqduck • Jan 13 '19

I've been programming on LSD for 6 months. I live and breathe programming and have transformed my entire cognitive process to one massive programming terminal.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/[deleted] • Feb 15 '22

Please don’t use “win” as an abbreviation for Microsoft Windows in GNU software or documentation. [...] calling something a “win” is a form of praise. You’re free to praise Microsoft Windows on your own if you want, but please don’t do so in GNU packages.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/RustEvangelist10xer • Feb 03 '22

is it safe to use __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED ?

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/imatworkbruv • Dec 19 '19

Man is impressed by the V language and attempts to compliment it on the V forum (written 100% in V), but is stopped by buggy V code

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/anon202001 • Dec 30 '23

I told the waitress "I can't scan the codes because I don't know who put the QR codes there". She told "the codes lead to their website". ... I respond if she knows what MITM attack is. She responded "if you can't afford a phone we should leave and go somewhere else".

news.ycombinator.com

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/xigoi • Jun 04 '21

You joke, but half the reason I use Vim is for the elitist appeal. I want people at work to look at me wizzing around Vim and the terminal and think "damn, she is a genius".

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/re_anon • May 11 '19

Anime Girls Holding Programming Books

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