this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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Programmer Humor

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TIL about the greek question mark

Tell me, can you tell the difference between these two characters?

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And just like Reddit you're complaining about it for absolutely no reason. How about we try to be a bit more welcoming and a bit less gatekeepery.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That's kind of an absurd position when the explicit purpose of segmented communities is to gatekeep content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I realize my attitude is negative, but r/programmerhumor was not my crowd and it looks like neither is this community. There is no place where I can find memes about a large part of my life and I'm frustrated.

"Missing semicolon", "light IDE is for psychopaths", "JS sucks", "AI is just if-statements", I just can't relate to those jokes and after the 100th repost I still don't think they're funny.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your contribution appears to be solely whinging. If you want a certain type of content how about you post some and see if it catches on?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm curious, what would you prefer? Reposts suck, but dunking on the languages everyone agrees are bad and complaining about debugging is the only version of programmer humour I'm familiar with.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I found this blog article with some xkcd comics that I find hilarious, if that helps

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

XKCD is indeed awesome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

These are quite funny. Thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

my crowd

how about https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor ? this instance tends to attract more actual programmers

preemptive note: I'm not making a suggestion, I'm asking what you think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I realize my attitude is negative, but r/programmerhumor was not my crowd and it looks like neither is this community.

Sounds like a win for this community.