Computer stupidities
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Programming[^] A good laugh !! My favorite:
At my previous job, we were porting a UNIX system to Windows NT using Microsoft VC++. A colleague of mine, that was in the process of porting his portion of the code, came to me, looking really upset.
Colleague: "Hey! I hate these Microsoft guys! What a rotten compiler! It only accepts 16,384 local variables in a function!"
-------- "I say no to drugs, but they don't listen." - Marilyn Manson
Michel Prévost wrote: Colleague: "Hey! I hate these Microsoft guys! What a rotten compiler! It only accepts 16,384 local variables in a function!" Did I mention that I hate code generation tools? Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski
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Programming[^] A good laugh !! My favorite:
At my previous job, we were porting a UNIX system to Windows NT using Microsoft VC++. A colleague of mine, that was in the process of porting his portion of the code, came to me, looking really upset.
Colleague: "Hey! I hate these Microsoft guys! What a rotten compiler! It only accepts 16,384 local variables in a function!"
-------- "I say no to drugs, but they don't listen." - Marilyn Manson
:laugh::laugh::laugh: "When I was studying programming, one of my classmates was having serious troubles with his program. When he asked me for help, I leaned over his screen and saw all of his code in comments. The reason: "Well, it compiles much faster that way."
Pushing little children, With their fully automatics, They like to push the weak around
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Programming[^] A good laugh !! My favorite:
At my previous job, we were porting a UNIX system to Windows NT using Microsoft VC++. A colleague of mine, that was in the process of porting his portion of the code, came to me, looking really upset.
Colleague: "Hey! I hate these Microsoft guys! What a rotten compiler! It only accepts 16,384 local variables in a function!"
-------- "I say no to drugs, but they don't listen." - Marilyn Manson
Me: "Nobody over the age of eight uses QBasic for serious purposes." Him: "But they made windows with QBasic." Sometimes I wonder... :suss: We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ~ H.L. Mencken
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Programming[^] A good laugh !! My favorite:
At my previous job, we were porting a UNIX system to Windows NT using Microsoft VC++. A colleague of mine, that was in the process of porting his portion of the code, came to me, looking really upset.
Colleague: "Hey! I hate these Microsoft guys! What a rotten compiler! It only accepts 16,384 local variables in a function!"
-------- "I say no to drugs, but they don't listen." - Marilyn Manson
I've actually had a fellow developer seriously ask me how to tell if a number was negative. I was confused at first, but when I said if it is less then zero, they were very happy with the solution. Only later did they come back and say that they should have probably figured it out on their own. :| -Andy Brummer
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Programming[^] A good laugh !! My favorite:
At my previous job, we were porting a UNIX system to Windows NT using Microsoft VC++. A colleague of mine, that was in the process of porting his portion of the code, came to me, looking really upset.
Colleague: "Hey! I hate these Microsoft guys! What a rotten compiler! It only accepts 16,384 local variables in a function!"
-------- "I say no to drugs, but they don't listen." - Marilyn Manson
I think I have a new sig.:doh: /* Return code=1: generic error condition Return code=2: all other error conditions */
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Programming[^] A good laugh !! My favorite:
At my previous job, we were porting a UNIX system to Windows NT using Microsoft VC++. A colleague of mine, that was in the process of porting his portion of the code, came to me, looking really upset.
Colleague: "Hey! I hate these Microsoft guys! What a rotten compiler! It only accepts 16,384 local variables in a function!"
-------- "I say no to drugs, but they don't listen." - Marilyn Manson
When a computer professor asked his students to comment all their programs, he got remarks like: "This program is very nice." "This program is very difficult." "This program is very interesting." Oh my god that's hilarious. BPOTD! (best post) :) --------------------------- He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. -Lao Tsu
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Programming[^] A good laugh !! My favorite:
At my previous job, we were porting a UNIX system to Windows NT using Microsoft VC++. A colleague of mine, that was in the process of porting his portion of the code, came to me, looking really upset.
Colleague: "Hey! I hate these Microsoft guys! What a rotten compiler! It only accepts 16,384 local variables in a function!"
-------- "I say no to drugs, but they don't listen." - Marilyn Manson
A former regular here on CodeProject (I haven't seen him for a while) once commented to me that a lady where he works peppers her C/C++ code with & and * until it compiles because she doesn't understand what they're for. People like that need to go back to their dead-end jobs before they joined the "wonderful and exciting world of computers" they saw advertised on late-night TV.
Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles
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A former regular here on CodeProject (I haven't seen him for a while) once commented to me that a lady where he works peppers her C/C++ code with & and * until it compiles because she doesn't understand what they're for. People like that need to go back to their dead-end jobs before they joined the "wonderful and exciting world of computers" they saw advertised on late-night TV.
Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles
Heath Stewart wrote: People like that need to go back to their dead-end jobs before they joined the "wonderful and exciting world of computers" they saw advertised on late-night TV You got my 5 for this ! -------- "I say no to drugs, but they don't listen." - Marilyn Manson
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A former regular here on CodeProject (I haven't seen him for a while) once commented to me that a lady where he works peppers her C/C++ code with & and * until it compiles because she doesn't understand what they're for. People like that need to go back to their dead-end jobs before they joined the "wonderful and exciting world of computers" they saw advertised on late-night TV.
Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles
There was an ex-employee here that was helping me get started with C++ programming. I once commented that I got confused which to use * or & depending on the context. He said, we don't really know, either, we just keep switching them until it compiles. !!! :wtf: This person had code that was in shipping products!! :omg: The maximum characters for the signature is five hundred. I was wondering how long a five hundred characters message would be, so I decided to make my signature 500 characters long. I'm sure if I had some cool html stuff in my signature, I could eat up five hundred characters, but just typing five hundred characters takes quite some time. The trick I think is finding something to say, but I'm usually a man of few words. So I guess I'll tell you what I've discovered is the secret to life. It
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Programming[^] A good laugh !! My favorite:
At my previous job, we were porting a UNIX system to Windows NT using Microsoft VC++. A colleague of mine, that was in the process of porting his portion of the code, came to me, looking really upset.
Colleague: "Hey! I hate these Microsoft guys! What a rotten compiler! It only accepts 16,384 local variables in a function!"
-------- "I say no to drugs, but they don't listen." - Marilyn Manson
One of coworker said that when you get a compiler error like "unable to convert paramter n from xxx to xxx" all you have to do is put * or & somewhere in the paramter and it will start working, and yeah sometimes it really works.
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I've actually had a fellow developer seriously ask me how to tell if a number was negative. I was confused at first, but when I said if it is less then zero, they were very happy with the solution. Only later did they come back and say that they should have probably figured it out on their own. :| -Andy Brummer
In the same vein I once came across some code that cast an int to a string then checked to see if the first character was '-'. Wow.:wtf: