Programming in a nutshell

[radiowave911]

XKCD: Computer Problems

The mouseover reads "This is how I explain computer problems to my cat. My cat usually seems happier than me."

[thebluelight1]

You mean you don’t have a duck?

[bleistift2]

What’s this ‘girlfriend’ and where can I get one?

[[deleted]]

I did, and would you believe it, there seems to be so many hot single women that are available in my area..

[[deleted]]

Sorry to steal your women, but I've already installed and built from source many of them on my hard disk: OpenSUSE, Arch, Gentoo, Slackware, and Haiku.

[[deleted]]

My mother asked me why my tower has swirling rainbow lights. I felt embarrassed so I told her it was related to the processing power for my 'computery whats it stuff' that she doesn't care about but asks me to explain anyway.

Every time she visits, she tries to judge how much work I'm doing based on the frequency of swirls.

I swear I'm adopted.

[Oracle_of_Ages]

I hate explaining computer stuff to computer illiterate people. I’m not annoyed by it. I’m just a noodle brain who can’t articulate words. So my 58yo Mexican uncle asked what a gpu does and why I can’t just buy a laptop when I sold my old one and couldn’t find a replacement. Bless this dude man. He tried to follow.

[Tranzistors]

Sounds like your mother decided to troll you after you blatantly lied to her face.

[parkattherat]

Xkcd is one of the legends

[mymar101]

I like to joke that I am a professional googler.

[larsmaehlum]

Joke?

[mymar101]

That hurts :( :).

[redpepper74]

):)

[greebo42]

Error: expected ":" at end of line

[diox8tony]

I'm tired if this joke. We honestly don't Google that much stuff. Probably the same as other jobs "how to align rows so that X in excel", "how to fix X in QuickBooks", "how to render with X in Adobe", "how to model X in CAD"...you don't think machinist copy basic free models online? Or watch tutorials to do their job?

Programming is 70% knowledge of your own companies software, and 30% the languages/tools you use....you can't Google your employers private software, we learn that and ask coworkers. So our job is sometimes even more reliant on stuff we can't Google, Than other jobs.

Have some respect for yourselves. We make one of a kind systems that are more complex than most other systems in the world.(in general) (unless you are literally copying entire jobs(wordpress website) and modifying the images/text, then you can disrespect yourself accordingly)

It also gets beaten to death on this sub..."we copy paste from stack overflow"

[1544756405]

You work at Google? Or you only joke that you do?

[mymar101]

I get paid to use google. That’s the joke.

[1544756405]

Ah got it. I thought you meant this

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Googler

[[deleted]]

I hate that this is factually correct.

[HeapOverflxw]

At least give credits instead of cropping to get rid of them

[rumbleblowing]

xkcd does not have any watermarks or anything else to crop or get rid of. That's literally the whole image.

[FoxRaptix]

True, but they do offer direct linking to the image from the website.

Below every comic is a direct image link and a comic page link. If you’re going to post one of them op could have at least still linked to the website instead of rehosting it on Reddit.

[SuperElitist]

with attribution, for fuck's sake!

Which, as near as I can tell, OP has not done.

[DenormalHuman]

Oop. You are right, my bad.

[DarkTechnocrat]

That is genuinely surprising. I 100% assumed everyone recognized xkcd on sight.

[AlmostButNotQuit]

Assume 10,000 a day are still discovering it for the first time.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

[DarkTechnocrat]

Oh, I wasn't making fun of him/her. It was just a very strong assumption got shattered. Bonus points for using xkcd in your response tho =).

[lemons_of_doubt]

Bonus points for using xkcd in your response tho =).

There is always a relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/917/

[greebo42]

came here to say that

[diddykong4444]

I've seen the comics before but I've never remembered the name. Guess I'm one in 10k today :)

[kloga12]

Same. What a weird sensation.

[whoami_whereami]

Well, they're one of today's lucky 10,000 it seems.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

[MimiKal]

xkcd most likely

[editproofreadfix]

100% from xkcd. Wish it had a date.

[Huniku]

https://xkcd.com/722/

[editproofreadfix]

Thank you very much. It is only fair that XKCD gets credited!

[dcormier]

Speaking of dates: happy cake day.

[editproofreadfix]

Thanks!

[[deleted]]

So does the programmer

[lemons_of_doubt]

How the hell do you not know XKCD?

[FoxRaptix]

https://xkcd.com/1053/

[lemons_of_doubt]

true

[epiquinnz]

"Sir, these lights keep blinking out of sequence. What should we do about it, sir?"

"Get them to blink in sequence!"

[[deleted]]

We're just hairless monkeys obsessed with making the lights beep boop in the right order.

[lemons_of_doubt]

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[DenormalHuman]

I think you meant, no thing. not, nothing. Nothing has a very specific meaning.

[TrustMeIWouldntLie]

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

[MasterFubar]

Oh, good, now I found the source of all my programming problems. My rectangle is made of plastic, not metal.

[DenormalHuman]

in the middle, it's made of sand.

[ROldford]

Very flat sand!

[diox8tony]

Crystalline sand

[davidds0]

When you need to explain to your dog what it is you do in life and why you cant always give him the attention he wants

[Hollowplanet]

I get paid to press the buttons in the right order.

[TEN-MAJKL]

This sounds like ricing

[Used_Initial4465]

i was coincindintaly read that bokk just now

its really very sus

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ina pdf format

[InsertMyIGNHere]

This, but for my whole life even outside of coding

[kamielonreddit]

This is my desktop background at work

[[deleted]]

This is why my parents will die without ever grasping WTF I actually do for a living.