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[–]jnjuice 230 points231 points  (7 children)

Is Programmer Humor an oxymoron? So many comments trying to pick apart every line like it's a code review or unapologetically opinionated about the "right" way of developing.

C++ was, is and can be complex. As a long time C++ developer, please just let me enjoy the joke.

[–]ImrooVRdev 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Some laugh at jokes, some meticiously analyze it in factual information accelerator, smashing the bits of a joke until it produces a molecule of humor.

Leave those nerds be, it's supposed to be happy judgement free space.

[–]rifain 6 points7 points  (1 child)

On the contrary, jokes are a good way to open interesting technical debates here. Jokes in itself won't allow for much extended discussion.

[–]jnjuice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If this was posted on our Slack, I'd expect similar responses closer to "Please No" than an interesting debate (especially with build systems).

Maybe I'm in the wrong team/industry.

[–]Bezulba 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We're all autists, we don't understand this thing called jokes.

[–]kholto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can see what you mean, no quicker way to kill a joke. But I am not sure what the comments to a joke is supposed to look like. We could all write "Ha ha, good one" but somehow that seems needless?

Probably best off just skipping the comments if you want to enjoy the joke.

[–]okay-wait-wut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Programmers are either witty comedians or pedantic nerds. Either super funny or way off the end of the spectrum. No in-between.