Non-programmers probably won't get this.
1 posted on
10/08/2015 10:15:43 AM PDT by
econjack
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To: econjack
That joke is older than most of the people that read Free Republic.
2 posted on
10/08/2015 10:16:26 AM PDT by
justlurking
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3 posted on
10/08/2015 10:16:29 AM PDT by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: econjack
I laughed so hard I broke my slide rule.
To: econjack
Yeah, I always thought you guys were tetesterone deficient! This proves it!!! ROTFL
jk - I prgm some too. :-)
5 posted on
10/08/2015 10:22:21 AM PDT by
amorphous
To: econjack
Engineers and mathematicians understand it just fine.
6 posted on
10/08/2015 10:22:41 AM PDT by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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Speaking of programming jokes, have any of y’all ever heard the expression ‘he did a BAL to the brain and got an 806’?
To explain: BAL is the assembler cmd for branch-and-link and an 806 error is ‘program not found’ yuk yuk
7 posted on
10/08/2015 10:23:27 AM PDT by
notdownwidems
(Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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How about this one: ‘There are only 3 kinds of people in the world - people who understand math and people who don’t.’
9 posted on
10/08/2015 10:24:54 AM PDT by
notdownwidems
(Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
To: econjack
What would a hexadecimal version of the joke be? Or octal?
10 posted on
10/08/2015 10:25:54 AM PDT by
cicero2k
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12 posted on
10/08/2015 10:29:51 AM PDT by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: econjack
In the early days of computers, there was a proposal that the human race switch from using the decimal system to octal. The reasoning was that it takes computers less time and energy to convert between native binary and octal than between native binary and decimal. It you add up the savings for every computer in the world, for all time, the total savings would be astronomical; so the quicker we switched over, the better.
Of course, they didn't forsee that in only a couple of years, octal would be largely replaced by hexadecimal for displaying raw bits.
15 posted on
10/08/2015 10:31:43 AM PDT by
snarkpup
("No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough." - Susan Modesky)
To: econjack
And then there's the unary number system (perhaps originally based on the idea of counting fingers). E.g., 10 in the decimal system would be "1111111111" in unary. The only application of this I ever saw was an algorithm for doing infinite precision arithmetic using a Turing tape as the only memory device.
23 posted on
10/08/2015 10:46:15 AM PDT by
snarkpup
("No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough." - Susan Modesky)
To: econjack
I use this joke in my classes. Most of them don’t get it :-)
24 posted on
10/08/2015 10:48:03 AM PDT by
KosmicKitty
(Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
To: econjack
My teenaged homeschoolers get it. :)
25 posted on
10/08/2015 11:00:53 AM PDT by
FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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27 posted on
10/08/2015 11:03:40 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: econjack
Teacher told the class that likely two thirds of them did not understand fractions well—one of the students responded more pessimistically that it might be as high as four thirds.
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LISP is a recursive language.
First you curse and then you recurse.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
31 posted on
10/08/2015 11:22:19 AM PDT by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
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A JOKE O-O DEVELOPERS CAN UNDERSTAND
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IF HAMLET WAS A HARDWARE ENGINEER:
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35 posted on
10/08/2015 11:27:31 AM PDT by
DungeonMaster
(God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son...)
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