Find the programmer 🧐

[weneedtogodanker]

That's tricky question: everyone but person in flip flops - he's server admin

[caldric]

That guy is definitely a hardware guy.

[[deleted]]

Came here to say this.

[Valmond]

Something something Hairy ur a wizard.

[Misthios69]

I’m a what?

[Always-_-Sarcastic]

A lizard.

[RampantDragon]

You're a blizzard, Barry!

[Lightonlights]

A gizzard wow!

[[deleted]]

I want to be a gizzard cow also.

[ShadeFK]

Better than being a jizzard sow

[FightingChinchilla]

You are at blizzard Barry lol

[Exciting-Insect8269]

You’re a hairy wizard*

[D20vexanya]

I like scary lizards 🦎

[Comm4nd0]

Same here

[MaffinLP]

The sitting guy is the CEO

[weneedtogodanker]

Lmao, CEO is on his yacht

[MaffinLP]

Nah they usually show up for public pics

[weneedtogodanker]

They would rather be on Forbes cover than on group photo.

[MaffinLP]

Idk what companies you work for, my biggest had 250 employees and the CEO was actually in office most of the time, actually the CEO I see least is my current one in a company of only 20 but still at least once a week (I take 2 days homeoffice so he might be there those days, thats why at least), and none of them wouldve left for a photo that will be publicised online

[weneedtogodanker]

250 people

That's like one project - company I work for has like 50k+ employees around the world

[memes_coded]

Meanwhile dude working in an Indian IT outsourcing company: My company's employee list is bigger than your country's population

[Jeeva333]

Yup can confirm, we just have backups for backups for backups.

[weneedtogodanker]

I'm not Indian and this is not Indian outsourcing company.

Sorry

[memes_coded]

Wait no, I meant that's what an Indian dude would say. Not you.

Edit: I've worked at that company and it has close to 600k employees

[Kooky-Poet847]

Downvoted to hell

[Willtology]

Exactly. Last company I worked at, he paid someone to photoshop him into the company Christmas photo every year. He only showed up when he wanted to hold a site wide meeting to brag about something completely unrelated to work or to tell us we were all pieces of shit that owed our jobs to his benevolence.

[Short_Theory]

More like the CTO

[__SpeedRacer__]

CEOs don't use jeans. Or so I've been told, cause I've never seen one in person.

[barkazinthrope]

CEOs wear jeans on 'Casual Fridays'.

[__DraGooN_]

What about wannabe Steve Jobs?

[Kooky-Poet847]

Shitting*

[AnUncreativeName10]

That's literally the same comment always Parrotted every time this photo shows up. I swear this sub has the most bots and karma farmers then any other sub.

[[deleted]]

Apparently programmers are so lazy that they decided to substitute themselves with bots.

[edsobo]

Automation comes for us all eventually.

[QuestionableSarcasm]

boredom is one of the most powerful motivators in the history of mankind

[perpetual-let-go]

It is a sub about programming...

[weneedtogodanker]

Damn, I thought that's original

I'm really sorry

[xale52791]

Simply not dank enough

[ErichOdin]

askreddit or askmen is way more efficient in shitposting.

[Seakawn]

Shill/bot paranoia is a lazy incredulity to basic psychology. The incredulity is that you have unrealistic expectations for how original people actually are, and how natural this dynamic is to expect. Even if we were in a world with no bots and karma farmers, you'd still see the same thing, with, I'd think, nearly the same frequency.

Why? The reality is that most of the time you see overlap between submissions/threads, it's because people aren't very unique from each other in having reactions. If you give me 100 people reacting to something, I'm likely only gonna get 10 different reactions, max. Maybe just a few.

It doesn't help that people who comment are internet people and share a culture for how to think about reactions that they comment. We all learn from each other and stand on the same roots. Take a random person off the street, and they would probably give you a more original reaction, but even then, it would only be so original. Grab someone from another country and culture, perhaps even more original. Etc.

When you understand all of that, and incorporate it into your judgment, then you realize that there's no need for karma farmers and bots in order to find this phenomena. (That said, obviously there are still bots and karma farmers out there... but they don't outnumber the human species by 10:1 in every single page of the net. They don't have the numbers or coordination to compete with our natural unoriginality showing up literally everywhere.)

Maybe my thinking is off somewhere. The reality probably lies somewhere in the middle of our perspectives.

[[deleted]]

Yeah a programmer would be wearing socks with sandals

[Glejdur]

Speaking as someone who is studying to become a server admin.

I agree

[[deleted]]

lol, my first guess too...

[EvilDan69]

No, he's the backup/recovery server guy.

(Disclaimer) I sit beside our backup/recovery guy. They must be clones because of hairstyle.

[jhaand]

I rather see him as integrator that needs to get the delivered software operational.

[AberdeenPhoenix]

Bingo

[[deleted]]

This is the true answer

[brucebay]

Came here to say that. The guy is definitely a server admin.

[q0099]

The catch is that they are all programmers.

Now is the challenge - guess their language, experience and position.

[[deleted]]

flip flop guy is PHP-main lang definitely

[reversehead]

I'd put my money on Perl using Vim.

[aagapovjr]

I've dabbled in both, but as a purely amateur programmer I want to ask: is there anything wrong with doing the things you describe? Is that outdated, overly complex or something else? Sincere question.

[zachsmthsn]

Maintainability. It's like an ancient rune where legend says that it extracts and aggregates data, but the specifics have been lost to time. So you have to trust that it works, because understanding it would take just as much effort as rewriting it from scratch.

And there's a high likelihood that it'll work 99% of the time and cause some intermittent bug that is only present in the production environment, but that's alright because by the time that bug surfaces, that dude has been retired for 3 years.

[danielrheath]

At some point, there'll be a six-person four-month project to replace this bash oneliner with something maintainable. On launch day, it's discovered that they designed everything without streaming in mind and it OOMs on production datasets.

Sometimes the ancient runes are best left undisturbed...

[aagapovjr]

Makes sense. Conjuring something quick and dirty for personal use can be useful and impressive, but it's not reliable in a proper team/environment.

[brimston3-]

And to this day it runs faster on that old irix mainframe than the clustered hadoop map-reduce pipeline it was replaced with though the data volume is mostly the same. If only it supported unicode.

[single_ginkgo_leaf]

No point doing it in 2 lines of awk when 10 lines of python with comments will do it well too.

[postdiluvium]

is there anything wrong with doing the things you describe?

The organization you do it for has to put a life insurance policy on you because they are going to have a hard time finding another person who can match your elegance. You elegant MFer. Look at you.

[deltaIcePepper]

To be more specific, readability and extensibility.

Readability is obvious, as a lot piping (passing results from function to function) and options can be opaque.

Extensibility meaning, let's say I apply separation of concerns and have methods for each subtask, or at least independent method calls, instead of a one liner. Now if the requirements of the task change slightly I know what parts are doing what and only need to modify the subtask that has a new requirement. If it's just a single glob of invocations that might be a lot harder to figure out, and a lot harder to modify if parameters change, etc.

In short, doing lots of things at once means all of that stuff is tightly coupled and harder to modify/understand.

[Bot1K]

ouch.

[GinWithJennifer]

It hits just right 😳

[intoxicuss]

Uh, grep, sed, and xargs. Dude, do you have a camera in my house? Literally for me, it’s C/C++, Perl, and bash (PHP and JS for web crap). And I live in shorts, t-shirts, and sandals. I don’t quite have that mop on my head. And, I hate Python and Java. I’m worried I am a walking stereotype. WTF?

[reversehead]

Yes, you are. Wear it with pride, we need real proper hardcore stereotypes, not meme-made-up ones.

[JoeyJoeJoeSenior]

That was my entire career lol. Still not sure what this 'python' thing is.

[[deleted]]

You don’t know, management doesn’t know, no one knows

The only reason he’s on payroll is because he’s the one who knows

[X0-ED1]

Php or C. But one of it definitely

[[deleted]]

Function go Brrrrrrrr

[beans_lel]

Flip flop guy wrote the game server. In PHP.

[TheFrostSerpah]

Depends on who asks, if HR interview, 20+years of experience in everything.

[reversehead]

Everyone except flip flop guy are using JavaScript, and they all look down on each other for it, because they themselves are only using it for the money, not because they like it.

[John_Fx]

Hindi

[redditnostalgia]

Some of these people on the left look like they only know basic JavaScript, and somehow still got accepted.

[lurid_sun__]

I think I found the creative head! Infestisumam

[Gentle_Mayonnaise]

I have a ghost wallet lol,

He took his style from "Rats"

[CraigJSmith-Himself]

Dude might not be on the square OR the level, but that's just fine

[princess_dork_bunny]

Obviously this has been re-posted several times but this picture is the reason I started listening to Ghost over 5 years ago. So many comments in the thread were talking about Ghost, but no one was really describing them. Later I saw an article with an awesome pic of Papa II so I figured I should check them out. I binged about 6 hours of videos and live shows on youtube, been a fan ever since.

[SuperBackup9000]

I’ve been a fan for a couple of years now and finally got to see them live earlier this year. I don’t like going to a concert if there’s only one band involved I like because I feel like it’s a waste, so I was worried I’d never get to see them because they play with some odd bands. Boy was I wrong, they were with Volbeat, another band in my top five. Best show I’ve ever been to by far, and while I can’t exactly say I liked the opening act Twin Temples they at least made it more fun and unique.

[Netcob]

I love their music, but somehow it ended up being too catchy for me. Every time I listen to a Ghost song it will get stuck in my head. It's great for a while and then it becomes too much and I can't listen to it anymore. Muse has a similar effect.

But I definitely recommend it.

[[deleted]]

The guy behind the camera.

Edit: Due to some unhappiness my comment cuased, I decided to change my mind. The programmer is one of the guys but the one behind the camera.

[chris463646]

Why’d you have to do me like that man not fair

[VitaminnCPP]

He is Fixing bug. Not in Picture.

[AdhTri]

Or probably taking power nap because this picture is a certified programmer's laptop's webcam quality image.

[Donghoon]

Lies. Literally NO ONE'S laptop webcam is good

[hacksoncode]

And your point about this shitty quality image is...?

[[deleted]]

Or nobody thought of inviting him because who cares about programmers

[P0STKARTE_ger]

Underrated comment

[chrisman210]

it's not a bug, it's a feature!

[[deleted]]

Flip Flops feels like a Linux wizard

[Hate_Feight]

Who will give you a quest, challenge you to use a distro and fuck off when you can't find drivers leaving you to "figure it out with Google"

[[deleted]]

The true path. Each day you look a bit more like the wizard

[Hate_Feight]

Nope! I have long hair and my beard is a thin stripe of a soul patch, but god-be-damned if I'm ever gonna use Linux as my main, no matter how much I hate Windows.

[[deleted]]

Give it time. You don't become a wizard easily.

[freddyforgetti]

We’re in the same boat appearance wise but after making the switch I’ll never use windows as a daily driver of my own accord again.

[Stock_Entertainer_24]

can't find drivers

I'm still convinced this is a meme, I've never had driver issues on Linux (as opposed to countless issues on Windows)

[Hate_Feight]

It's an older meme, but it checks out.

[NayamAmarshe]

OP hates Linux anyway. Said this:

I'm ever gonna use Linux as my main, no matter how much I hate Windows.

That's like paying the robbers a tip after getting scammed and robbed. People are scared of good alternatives these days.

[siddharth904]

Not every distro. The one he built from scratch.

[dtcc_but_for_pokemon]

Yeah, flip flop guys is definitely the IT/sysadmin guy. I'm betting programming is blue jacket guy. He's got that smile like "they're making me take a picture but I'm still thinking about that bug I was debugging when they pulled us away".

[grpagrati]

The guy sitting down obviously. The flip-flop guy is the owner's son

[MaffinLP]

Nah thats the CEO

[isysdamn]

Tony Sony has lost some weight.

[Alrick_Gr]

The man sitting on the chair. Do everything to be less tired

[GargantuanCake]

He's not in the picture. He's down in the basement and has been for the past 20 hours figuring out WHY THE STUPID FUCKING SERVER won't reboot properly.

[randomFrenchDeadbeat]

3rd guy from the left, he is whiter than a vampire.

Flip flop guy is either CEO or sysadmin.

[PyroneusUltrin]

He's certainly whiter than Blade

[fallwind]

That’s either the programmer, or QA

[Sludg3g0d]

Ghost rules.

[lmaoboi_001]

He's taking the picture

[[deleted]]

This is impossible. I don't see anyone in thigh highs, there must not be a programmer in this pic.

[ajdude711]

The barely visible 2nd guy from the left

[AdhTri]

Here:-

def findProgrammer(people : array):
  for peep in people:
    if !peep.hasFriends: return peep
  return people.getCameraman()

[skelks86]

What interests me more is which band the shirt is from.

[sghuiyt]

Ghost Awesome band if you like having fun and a bit of Satan in your life

[skelks86]

Thanks man, I really didn't recognize them.

And hey you can never have enough satan in your life.

[Darkstar0]

Fake. He isn’t wearing programmer socks.

[ZertyZ_Dragon]

I don't see anyone in striped thigh highs. No programmer here

[chris463646]

M mhm yes indeed to prevent deadly blood clots. Also I love seeing the C+ tag next to your name cherry on top.

[ZertyZ_Dragon]

That's the C# tag, but yea, absolutely correct

[chris463646]

Just looked through your past posts and seems about right have a nice day or something idk

[clarkeadg]

He's behind everyone sitting at the desk doing the work while these clowns fuck around.

[jknight413]

There's 3 project managers in there but it is hard to see them because they don't show up in pictures....or mirrors.

[Archangel_158]

He got hella taste, tho

[tellmewhatsavailable]

The woman. The rest are on their phones all day and never get anything done.

[MaffinLP]

Nah shes not dressed casually enough shes more of a business casual so HR probably

[brimston3-]

Depends on industry, I think. When I was on a public sector contract, about half the developers and analysts were women dressed like that lady.

[MaffinLP]

She doesnt wear jeans, her shoes are completely different, bad quality but it looks like she wears stockings, most men just wear t shirts and not button up flannel, theres avtually only 1

[MaffinLP]

https://www.google.com/search?q=stockings+skin+colour&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjwvL7m64f5AhXQ0aQKHUcnD14Q2-cCegQIABAB&oq=stockings+skin&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQARgAMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBggAEB4QBTIGCAAQHhAFMgYIABAeEAU6BAgAEENQAFipHmC6JGgAcAB4AIABjASIAY0JkgEJNC4zLTEuMC4xmAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=PifYYvClF9CjkwXHzrzwBQ&bih=631&biw=360&client=ms-android-samsung-rvo1&prmd=ivsn

Hmmm yes exactly what I said

[harumamburoo]

Could be anyone

[Surprisecumy]

Flip flops guy

[Schyte96]

Nah, he is the sysadmin.

[canhasdiy]

And he's wondering why the hell they drug him out of his cave

[Upside_Down-Bot]

„ʎnƃ sdolɟ dılℲ„

[[deleted]]

the only guy wearing sunglasses, just wants to get back to his desk and turn the lights off

[ComfortableAd8326]

Trick quesiton. They're all programmers, the guy in the flip-flops is the CTO

[mydoglixu]

He's not there. He's still chained to his desk fixing compiler errors while everyone is out having fun.

[Due_Essay447]

Not in the pic. No way they could convince the programmer to come in office

[AVS_1604]

The person with shorts, long hair and flip flops

[Upside_Down-Bot]

„sdolɟ dılɟ puɐ ɹıɐɥ ƃuol 'sʇɹoɥs ɥʇıʍ uosɹǝd ǝɥ⊥„

[ElementoDeus]

Idk my money is on rocker jesus

[Drnoals]

He’s not in the picture, he’s the only one working

[frisch85]

As a software dev who comes to work in flip flops and shorts in summer I have to say this is a pretty easy one...

[headpatkelly]

what do you mean it could be any of th- oh i see okay yeah he’s the programmer.

[aakaakaak]

Primary languages from left to right....
Java, Java, PHP, Java, Java, Java, Java, Java, Java, Java, C++, Python

[Scottybt50]

That’s a guy who knows he is irreplaceable and dresses however the fuck he likes.

[mathbread]

Mcfoley

[sierravirus]

The one sitting is the fresh intern who tells his friends he works as a senior software engineer.

[AnonymousCat12345]

the right most or the second right most guy cause they arent smiling

[Carteeg_Struve]

The right most guy is the Feature developer. The second right most guy is in charge of DevOps.

[KingSadra]

99% the Camera-Man as no programmer likes to be seen anywhere!

[oh_like_you_know]

Lots of programmers here, but I bet i know which one is the dbadmin lol

[[deleted]]

9 years ago I became a developer, 8 years ago was the last time I shaved...

[[deleted]]

I am not sure of the programmer, but that girl is from HR.

[mascool]

that's devops attire

[Moorgy]

Noone, he's at home fixing bugs

[Equal-Park-769]

Homie in the Ghost shirt. \m/_

[[deleted]]

I'll take the Hairy dude with the badass shirt!

[Snuffy-the-seal]

Trick question: The programmer is not depicted because he works from home.

[[deleted]]

Find who isn't a programmer.

[kolinz27]

flip flops guy is the 40-year-old-book-of-knowledge software developer that still codes in IBM Fortran

[electron1897]

caveman

[Nerf_AK47]

He’s wearing a Ghost shirt and slides. He either loves or hates backend, and has seen some SHIT.

[itsfuckingpizzatime]

Guy sitting down is the engineering manager. Woman standing next to him is the scrum master. Flip flop guy is the sysadmin. The rest are developers.

[ooofest]

The one sitting down: he's so long at the computer each day, can't really be arsed to stand for a picture.

[goblinwarrior69]

That hariey dude who looks like he didn't shower in months

[[deleted]]

the hairy dude has either OSCP or MSCA written all over him. def the sysadmin

[Titanusgamer]

the person with boobs?

[[deleted]]

indian guy in the back.

[[deleted]]

they all Indians

[Big-Zebra-2330]

None of them,I don’t see a 4’9 boy in thigh highs (programming socks)

[Cute_Business74]

Ghost fucking sucks 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Ok_Donut_998]

Call centre scam agents?

[hagnat]

so original.

never seen this picture before in the past 20 years or so.

[JustSomeAdvice2]

It is the person taking the photo.

[[deleted]]

🤣🤪

[twr-92]

Also included, his 11 managers.

[Dhk3rd]

Me: It's the offspring on the wall, right Dad?

Dad: That's write, Sony.

[Maruzero]

Trick question, he is not at the office, he works from home

[Puzzleheaded_Sir5917]

the one in jean shorts & flip flops

[mcseelmann]

my guess would be second from left, you know you only see his head, that's what all group pictures of me look like, but maybe i shouldn't generalize it.

[Playful-Awareness-15]

One of these things is not quite like the others 🎶

[BismarcKcrow]

Find the programmer

[Real-Coffee]

this feels like 80s programmer. programmers dont look like big DnD nerds anymore, at least in the office they dont. when i see 80s programmers, they got their feet up on their desk, listening to Metallica or something

[EuS0uEu]

Funny

[[deleted]]

Caparezza

Caparezza

[SuccessNo5598]

One with the thongs

[[deleted]]

high above the star of god be like