Academics study programmers in hunt to understand their sense of humor

[beschizza]

Originally published at: Academics study programmer humor

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[anon34399329]

I have a bunch of old images from that subreddit saved in a folder. Here’s one:

There’s a certain dry perspective to the good ones that makes me happy

Not sure if this is from the same source, but I also have a textfile of coding one-liners, like this:
“Debugging is like being the detective in a movie where you are also the murderer”

Ya gotta laugh etc.

[CoyoteDen]

There are three evergreen programming jokes:

1. I have a problem, I’ll use X. Now I have two problems.
2. Jokes about off-by-one errors.

[anon75574637]

4. Async/threading errors
3. Turn it off/on again variants

Ironically had to us programmer skills because of the numbered list formatter.

[beauwillamson]

I saw the “There are 10 kinds of people in the world” poster in my uncles office when I was a kid and to this day I’m still obsessed with non decimal number bases

[awfulhorrid]

I’d tell a joke about the UDP protocol, but I’m not sure if anyone would really get it.

[ficuswhisperer]