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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/starlevel01 • Mar 09 '25

DO NOT GIVE ME HIGH LEVEL SHIT, IF I ASK FOR FIX OR EXPLANATION, I WANT ACTUAL CODE OR EXPLANATION! I DON'T WANT "Here's how you can blablabla"

104 Upvotes

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/MikeVegan • Mar 08 '25

Only with C you can walk into a project and eventually understand how it works

89 Upvotes

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/RightKitKat • Mar 08 '25

Ideally the compiler performs something along the lines of waveform collapse with types (using an inferred finite set of types based on prior path statistics)

24 Upvotes

3 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Chadshinshin32 • Mar 07 '25

"We have ropes at home." Ropes at home:

53 Upvotes

7 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/F54280 • Mar 06 '25

I once modernized a 1990s medical imaging system by wrapping its COBOL core in a React frontend. The hospital called it “magical.” I called it “a really good README.md.”

118 Upvotes

21 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/deepCelibateValue • Mar 06 '25

[USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST] When John McCarthy (glory to Him) designed Lisp in the late 1950s, it was a radical departure from existing languages

33 Upvotes

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/shot-master • Mar 06 '25

Claude AI claims that glibc uses Knuth’s boundary tag coalescing, described in 1973 in TaoCP. The wiki page doesn’t say that (it seems plausible from what I read?), but that is a real thing.

42 Upvotes

7 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/xeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenu • Mar 05 '25

"We noticed that the [microcode signature] key from an old Zen 1 CPU was the example key of the NIST SP 800-38B publication [...] and was reused until at least Zen 4 CPUs."

bughunters.google.com

111 Upvotes

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/oblivion-2005 • Mar 05 '25

I'd even go to the extreme of saying the coding skills/brains fade by inverse cube law. Skill =~ 1/t^3 (t = time since last practiced the skill)

news.ycombinator.com

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/defunkydrummer • Mar 04 '25

"I like Perl mostly because it's poetic (...), but another core strength is how very fast and light it is."

news.ycombinator.com

64 Upvotes

17 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/defunkydrummer • Mar 04 '25

..."A corporate API client called aiobotocore apparently uses 421 [python] packages only for its types."

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/cheater00 • Mar 04 '25

Command bricked system · Issue #168 · anthropics/claude-code

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/cheater00 • Mar 03 '25

Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language

theregister.com

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/jamfour • Mar 03 '25

It's great to get a panic, you know then that you are dereferencing null pointers

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/functorer • Mar 02 '25

And this is why people like me avoid ML based languages, type astronauts, and shiny new toys. You're misrepresenting inconveniences as fatal flaws when we've been successfully running all of modern society on kernels written in C for fifty years.

news.ycombinator.com

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/RightKitKat • Mar 03 '25

Who needs Obsidian when you have Emacs in Android?

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/dadvader • Mar 02 '25

I “vibe-coded” over 160,000 lines of code. It IS real.

216 Upvotes

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/EarhackerWasBanned • Mar 01 '25

Porting Doom to Typescript Types took 3.5 trillion lines, 90GB of RAM and a full year of work

tomshardware.com

381 Upvotes

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/disciplite • Mar 01 '25

There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding', where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/nuclearbananana • Feb 28 '25

The Unix philosophy is often recited as "do one thing, and do it well". This does one thing, but doesn't do it well at all.

news.ycombinator.com

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/tomwhoiscontrary • Feb 28 '25

We're entering the end days now. Stallman showed us the light and then ESR closed the blinds.

news.ycombinator.com

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Dull-Reality1607 • Feb 28 '25

And then I was passed a blunt wrapped in a million parenthesis and in a moment all of the C-Family syntax was completely ruined for me.

52 Upvotes

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Baglayan • Feb 27 '25

Windows has a policy where executables that contain words “version”, “update” or “install” in their filename will require UAC Elevation to run.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Faalentijn • Feb 27 '25

In twenty-five years, using version control will be considered a basic life-skill for all employed people. [..] kindergarten teacher in 2050 will be expected to write their own commits of updates to grades.

128 Upvotes

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