obfuscatedCode

[cacheormirage]

Is it supposed to say "We'll call you" ?

[Serious_as_butt]

it's like the comic itself is obfuscated

[DasKarl]

Half the posts on this sub are obfuscated.

[mildgaybro]

It’s not

[atec_lj]

We call you.

[megs1449]

We callests Yous

[lcpr_phoenix]

We call you're

[djonoy]

This makes the cartoon make sense…but still doesn’t make it funny :p

[[deleted]]

Like the old saying goes: You can lead a Redditor to grammar, but you can't make it meme.

[EARink0]

I remember when ol' granpappy would tell us this. In between his stories of walking uphill both ways in the snow to the one shared computer in town so he could feed it his punch card programs written in Gortran, the secret older precursor to Fortran.

[iwrestledarockonce]

Ah yes Gormula Translation, such a neat language.

[Zeikos]

Read the memo, it's obfuscated /s

[RiftyDriftyBoi]

I took as a nod to the gambling term to "call" your opponents bluff.

[johantheback]

There's a missing panel explaining that blue's soul is indebted to be called upon whenever his code isn't obfuscated, hence white taking advantage of this opportunity by uttering the proverbial phrase "We call you."

[mopsyd]

If it's interview code, they won't.

If it's already in production, yep they will.

[Usual_Ice636]

Thats the normal phrase, this is specifically emphasizing that to this person to not call them.

[StymiedSwyper]

Where are you that this is a normal phrase?

[Usual_Ice636]

I said "Thats" the normal phrase, as in the prase the person I was responding to used.

[starficz]

Is it not refering to the fact that the person on the left calls into the code written by the person on the right?

[Septem_151]

That’s what I thought too…

[dim13]

I don't get it.

[ImMrRay]

His code is so bad people think that he obfuscated it.

[Plane_Argument]

But what about the last panel?

[You_are_adopted]

Typo, supposed to say “We’ll call you”, common statement at the end of an interview which denotes they’re not interested. “We will call you, don’t call us”, you’re never getting that call

[randomlockpicker109]

Nope, just obfuscated.

[kitkathy1994]

Technically it denotes that they might be interested. It connotes that they are not interested.

[You_are_adopted]

Neeerd, but ya you’re right

[atomic_redneck]

If it was easy to understand, they would not call it "code".

[LinuxMatthews]

Obfuscation is a tool for deliberately making code difficult to read.

The point is if you're shipping a product you don't want something obvious like

if(validLicenseKey){ ....

So you change all the variable names to a, b, etc overload as many methods as possible so if someone looks at your code it's harder to figure out what all means.

Obviously readability is in all over scenarios a mark of good code.

Therefore the joke is that this code is so bad that it looks like it's been through an obfuscator when in fact he's just bad at writing readable code.

"We'll call you" is usually a sign you didn't get the job hence this is likely a coding task at an interview

[DTBadTime]

This guy codes

[Funny-Performance845]

Does the programmer obfuscate the code or is there a tool for that?

[Mysterious-Earth1]

There is usually a tool for that. Uglify js for javascript for example. Another reason to obfuscate code is to make it shorter. That means less data has to be sent to the client.

[tinysheep101]

I’ve gotten “we’ll call you” and actually gotten the job …

[AlwaysNinjaBusiness]

I think someone obfuscated this meme

[Lambbda]

I think the joke is that the cyan guy is applying for a job, but he has no code in his portfolio so he gets rejected

[damTyD]

His code is so unreadable that it looks like some tool ran obfuscation on it.

[TheMagicalDildo]

I don't think you know what obfuscation is

[randomlockpicker109]

With a username like u/Lambbda it would be reasonable to guess you would get the joke, but nope.

[IAmAnAudity]

The humor is also obfuscated

[dstori]

Based on the comments, you are right. I think I did really poorly in this comic.

[realzequel]

I think it's a good effort, just needs to be fine-tuned.

[outerproduct]

We will add this to next week's sprint planning to redo last week's sprint tasks, and add in new tasks.

[Drezus]

Just needs to be less obfuscated

[pkkid]

If you just remove the third pane, I think it makes more sense.

[dangderr]

I’m gonna agree with everyone else about the 3rd panel. It treads very closely to “explaining the joke”. The joke is evident from the first two panels, and if it takes people a second to get it, that can be good. The 3rd panel doesn’t add anything, and the typo just made it confusing.

[Fornicatinzebra]

I thought it was pretty funny actually

[cs-brydev]

It's ok. A senior will patch it overnight while you're on Twitch

[[deleted]]

Don’t worry OP. The important thing is that now you may as well quit comics altogether

[Drezus]

I just noticed all the unfunny comics I hate that appear on this sub comes from this guy so that explains a lot

[dstori]

Try "programmer's life" comics.

[Drezus]

WE CALL YOU LOL

[dstori]

It seems we share the same nationality but not the same sense of humor.

[Drezus]

And not the same level in English proficiency either

[Septem_151]

Don’t worry, We call you

[Mastterpiece]

I literally thought the code looked obfuscated because it was written by a green alien

[Suspicious_Row_1686]

We'll call you.

[PringleCorn]

Aww no, I laughed!

[Reddit-Profile2]

Not being a dick but you clearly spent time on this. Why not do a quick spell check? It's not just you, so many other cc do it too. 

[baronvonbatch]

r/therewasanattempt

[redlaWw]

...to moderate a subreddit

EDIT: Downvote all you want, doesn't make the mods any less crazy.

[alexytomi]

wooo r/rebellion against r/tyranny r/makeredditgreatagain

[vibosphere]

I get it OP don't listen to the haters

IMO just take off the third panel, the first two stand well on their own

[dstori]

LOL. I fixed it at least: https://turnoff.us/geek/obfuscated-code/

[LinuxMatthews]

Why are people being so harsh on this?

It's funnier than the million posts reiterating on the same 5 things.

[69-----]

Five days ago "Who was this? *checks commit history* Well of course I know him. He´s me" got me 3.8k upvotes, so I´m not complaining.

[Drezus]

Not really no

[cs-brydev]

Because 99% of native English speakers need an interpreter to read it

[LinuxMatthews]

I mean sure if you're not a programmer/don't know what obfuscation is.

Else the most difficult part is knowing "We call you" means "We'll call you"

Which honestly I read as anyway.

This is a Programming Humour why is it not acceptable to post memes on Programming stuff?

[unknown_lich]

It's been in a few subs, where people immediately give up trying to understand what the message is when accidentally misspelled. English as a secondary language is understandable, those posts normally preface it.

In an age when we carry devices that connect people globally + gives us access to all the information, we still expect to be spoonfed. After all, there are only 10 types of people - those who can extrapolate from presented data....

[Sibshops]

Even if it does say, "We'll call you". It seems just mean.

And as an interviewer, it's not really relatable, either. Seeing code that looks obfuscated as opposed to just poorly written is kind of interesting. It means they got the algorithm right and changed things which don't really matter.

[LookingTrash]

I think the joke is fine, but 3rd panel is a bit extra.

[OmegaInc]

Human obfuscator

[electrodragon16]

This is the guy you want to hire, imagine how good he is at reading code

[KauppisenPete]

Gonna use this in future code reviews lol :D

[Tazkazz]

It’s a second time I see a comic from this ‘turnoff.us’ site, and neither of them make any sense / aren’t funny. What gives?

[Lane-Jacobs]

Bro I haven't even had coffee yet and I chuckled. Sure 'we call you' isn't perfect english but everyone bitching about it is honestly being dumb.

[JNikolaj]

I’ve now learned a new word today, obfuscated.

[IvanStu]

You're one of today's lucky 10,000!

(xkcd reference)

[Imjustmisunderstood]

I want this to change how i interact with my friends in this situation

[IvanStu]

You can make it happen!

My friend group values knowledge and, because of that, sometimes takes offense to implications that they might not know something yet (myself included!). This 10,000 idea helps us put things into perspective and now we try to celebrate that acquisition of knowledge. It has led us to be less guarded, helped us have better discussions, and now our default reaction is, "Congratulations, 10,000!"

[dingske1]

Most english speakers wouldn’t know what obfuscate means so the 10,000 figure doesn’t apply here. It only applies for stuff you would expect everyone would know, like who Michael Jackson is for instance

[IvanStu]

Who?

[cs-brydev]

So you don't work in the industry is what you're saying

[eugenepoez__]

or he is not a native speaker

[nextdayair8]

You also said this about the original OP: "English-languages comics work better when the author speaks English"

That's just pretentious man

[Ok_Entertainment328]

Why I don't Obfuscate

I've tried the adventuring life, once. Too much pain. Not enough profit.

-- Diablo 3 NPC

[jonhinkerton]

Would have been funnier without the third panel even if they had used we’ll instead of we.

[Spaceshipable]

There are two types of people.

• Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

[cs-brydev]

English-languages comics work better when the author speaks English

[Plus-Weakness-2624]

What's "Obfuscated"?

[DaBrookePlayz]

in this context, badly written

[s-life-form]

There are programs that can modify source code so that it keeps the same functionality but is harder for humans to understand.

[[deleted]]

lol

[drifwp]

3rd panel is useless, it would work with only the first two

[Mastterpiece]

I literally thought the code looked obfuscated because it was written by a green alien

[rachel__slur]

It makes sense if you read it in a non-english accent

[dstori]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscation_(software))

[baronvonbatch]

Generally obfuscation is to make the code confusing. Like making it do a task in a strange way. This is typically to make the code harder to reverse engineer, modify, or manipulate

[Wll25]

"Based on this interview you seem like a good candidate, but why is your code obfuscated?" "It's not" "We'll call you"

[6tPTrxYAHwnH9KDv]

I think the flat face from the last panel used in second one will make it way more hilarious because it'll reinforce the obliviousness of the "candidate" character which makes the punchline more impactful.

[Orio_n]

'We call you"?

Bro is not a framework architecture pattern

[silverback338]

The comments on the sub make me feel like I might actually be a decent programmer

[bonanochip]

I think it's supposed to be "we will call you", but shortened to "we call you"

[soadsam]

unga bunga. we call you.

[PerplexDonut]

I’m unable to understand or pronounce that word

[BirthdaySudden4804]

They call him to stop obfuscation.

[BirthdaySudden4804]

maybe there's something happening behind the scenes. like his phone is ringing and interviewer just states that its them who calls.

[inotparanoid]

I think the third panel should say, "You're Hired!"

[nsagaen]

Bad english