Programmer Humor

Wth is "Fixing memory leaks using pointers"?

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Honestly, CSS is a fucking joke and it's solely to blame for why centering something isn't always straightforward.

By the way, this picture is a crock of shit for people who aren't programmers. Anyone who is a programmer will not take it seriously because programming is so much more about helping others instead of shaming them.

Love the shoutout to Margaret Hamilton

Okay but how do u center a div in 2025

My experience is that the programmers from the first row very much still exist. My theory is that the number of programmers from the first row stayed the about same or even increased slightly. There are so many more so called "programmers" overall now, however, that in relation the first row programmers are much rarer now. And to be fair, you don't need a programmer capable of programming entire games in assembly to center a div.

I feel very confident in my understanding of random 8 bit CPUs and their support chips, but asking me to center a div is like this xkcd.

Nah, it's not that bad.
In 10 years with continued AI use? Yep.

I once had a junior calling me in a panic because he didn't know how to quit nano. NANO!

I started with C++ and went to Java to .NET to Javascript and now to Terraform.

I know this is all a joke but there's something definitely different with the ones above and the ones below. There's a bit of satisfaction you can get sometimes when you're working with memory directly and getting faster feedback (yes, there's more math back then and it wasn't easy to look stuff up, for sure). However, there's new challenges nowadays ... there's so many layers on top of layers. I feel as though Stack Overflow and ChatGPT are so needed because the error messages and things we give are obfuscated or unclear (not always any library author's fault as there's compatibility issues, etc)

We're doing serverless stuff at my current company and none of our devs run code locally. They have to upload it using CDK or Serverless Framework to run on the cloud. We don't use SST so we can't set breakpoints but like that's a lot of crap inbetween just running your code already. Not even getting into the libraries and transpilers and stuff we use. I spent like a few weeks over Christmas to get our devs to run the code locally. Guess what? None of them use it because they're so use to uploading it. I was like, "you can put breakpoints in it! you can have nodemon and it instant reloads! nope, none of them care ... "

QA: "Yeah, Hi. Can you look at this defect ticket?"

Reading ticket details...

Me: "Let me guess. Is [whatshisname] responsible for this?"

QA: "Yeah."

Me: "Get him to fix it."

QA: "I tried. Like four times."

Me: Sigh "I'll take care of it."

QA: "Thank you!"

Hey now. Searching stack overflow circia 2011 to 2018 was an Art. You had to know enough to find the correct question that wasn't deleted because a mod thought it was a duplicate of another question

80s programmers hated Unix, btw. Look up Unix Haters Handbook, it's a free and funny read

One of my favourite game dev stories from the 1980s is the story of Elite. It was a game people thought couldn't be made. Most devs thought hardware wasn't powerful enough and publishers thought it wouldn't be fun enough.

It was one of the first properly 3D open world video games ever made. I think when it released it sold nearly as many copies as there were home computers that could run it.

In order to make the game small enough to fit on a cassette tape they had to ditch basic and program the entire game, world in assembly.

There's a fantastic video about it here: https://youtu.be/lC4YLMLar5I

Hey buddy, if I fix one bug and cause three more, it's called job security. Where's my medal?

Can't exit Vim

Ah yes, the legendary filter

I feel attacked by "how to center div 2025"

I once had an intern attempt to install sudo using NPM and when that didn't work he asked ChatGPT "Why can't I install sudo from NPM?" while I'm trying to explain it to him.

He was smart, but somehow knew very little about commercial computers despite being on the verge of getting his master's in computer science.

The missing middle section was documentation and QA getting worse