Geek humour

[Al B. Sure!]

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Fixed that for you

Now that's geek humor!

[Al B. Sure!]

Fixed that for you

Now that's geek humor!

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More geek humor!

[Asher]

Actually, question about that. What programming language is that, and why would a function itself have a value of "false" as opposed to fun()==false? Is it some sort of function pointer?

It's C++, and fun is an object representing a function (a Javascript function).

In C++ you can nullcheck by doing if ( obj ).

Anything non-zero is true. It's essentially checking to see if the memory address is non-zero, which means it is a valid object.

[Asher]

Also, that was honestly the first time in my life I ever used "goto". But that's the style & implementation of Spidermonkey, so...

[Supr49er]

Old school geek humor:
On mainframes, the operating system used control blocks and had macros to map them.
The operating system group at IBM was run by a hated manager named Robert.
The UCB control block mapping macro was thus named IEFUCBOB

[Al B. Sure!]

Old school geek humor:
On mainframes, the operating system used control blocks and had macros to map them.
The operating system group at IBM was run by a hated manager named Robert.
The UCB control block mapping macro was thus named IEFUCBOB

[Krill]

RM has cancer?

[Asher]

:sadnod:

[Krill]

I see no link on Google though?

[Imran Siddiqui]

That was ****ing terrible

Did you understand it?

[SlowwHand]

I spent ~25 hours tracking down a bug in Firefox's Javascript engine, which we embed in our app. This included upgrading it from the one from FF 1.5 to the one from FF 4.0, which is much more complex (and faster). It still did not solve my problem, which was a crash bug.

So I took it upon myself to dig in and fix the bug. Eventually I fixed it with just one line:

if (!fun) goto error;

"fun" stands for "function", but "!fun" describes exactly how painful this situation was.

Even more fun is now that I've made changes to the sourcecode, I need to go through hours of legal work including documenting the change and making it available to Mozilla & anyone who asks.

Carry on...

I remember when I did Basic programming in my Intro To Computer Science class. If, then and then, inadvertently, loop. I had it down to what appeared a science. All my stuff looped.

[Riesstiu IV]

I like Toothpaste for Dinner but it's pretty hit or miss.

[Al B. Sure!]

Did you understand it?

Plato's Allegory of the Cave... why would i not understand that? It was still ****ing terrible.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Oh, I forget. You have no sense of humor.

[KrazyHorse]

Put yourself in his place; he has a college degree, has never worked anywhere other than a fast food restaurant, is unemployed, has been rejected from the army 3 times and is a 26 year-old virgin living in the slums of Philadelphia.

How much of a sense of humor would you have?