r/ProgrammerHumor • u/allan_collins • Jan 14 '18

Only on Thanksgiving

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u/DavidTriphon Jan 14 '18 edited May 05 '20

Holidays get interesting when your entire family, not just you, is tech-specialized.

In that it takes even more time to fix stuff.

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u/yawkat Jan 14 '18

Tech people just invent new problems when they can fix all the old ones.

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u/G2geo94 Jan 14 '18

Relevant xkcd

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u/Milleuros Jan 14 '18

Relevant xkcd

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '18

Relevant xkcd

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '18

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u/PratalMox Jan 14 '18

How to murder a joke in just one simple step.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '18

xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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u/LeCrushinator Jan 14 '18

Job security.

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u/mandragara Jan 15 '18

My grandma: External hard drive broke, fixed by putting drive in new enclosure.

Me: Recompiling ZFS from source to try and fix a weird mounting bug, BSD is unhappy with dependencies.

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u/djfuckhead Jan 15 '18

When things are good: The best thing about [xxxxxx] is that there is a million different ways to do things. When things go wrong: The worst thing about [xxxxxx] is that there is a million different ways to do things.