Quote: Original post by SiCrane
A given programmer knows whether or not he likes water. If he likes water then he will say "yes". If he doesn't like water then his possible answers are "no" or "don't know". So the last programmer knows that since no one answered "yes" then everyone else must not like water, so the answer is "no".

I shouldn't be posting ...

Quote: Lesan
all the programmers know wheter or not they like water

... without my glasses on ...


... because I seriously included the case where one or more of the test subjects really don't know about themselves, maybe because they never tried, for whatever reason.

[Edited by - phresnel on August 14, 2009 9:12:41 AM]

A biologist, a statistician, a mathematician and a computer scientist are on a photo-safari in africa. They drive out on the savannah in their jeep, stop and scout the horizon with their binoculars.

The biologist: "Look! There's a herd of zebras! And there, in the middle : A white zebra! It's fantastic! There are white zebra's! We'll be famous!"

The statistician: "It's not significant. We only know there's one white zebra."

The mathematician: "Actually, we only know there exists a zebra, which is white on one side."

The computer scientist: "Oh, no! A special case!"

Quote: Original post by Programmer One

Google Joke:
Recursion

Heh, that's awesome.

A programmer, a lawyer and a mechanic are travelling in a car together. The breaks on the car fail, and the car overshoots a corner and crashes into a field. Miraculously they all survive. The lawyer steps out, and says: "lets take the car to the nearest garage and find out what went wrong, find out whos fault it was, then sue them". the mechanic steps up, and says "no - we will take it to the garage, find out what went wrong, then fix it so it doesnt happen to anyone else".

the programmer disagrees with them both. "Na - we need to push the car back up the top of the hill, and see if it happens again"

The following is paraphrased and I can't remember where I first read it.

Quote:
Jesus and Satan are arguing over who is the better programmer, so much so that God steps in and arranges a programming contest to see who comes out on top.

The contest begins in earnest, and the two are neck and neck pumping out line after line of fantastic code and functionality. Suddenly, there's a powercut and both computers power down.

When the power comes back on and the two reboot, there was an unfortunate side effect. Satan had lost his work, but Jesus ran his program which ran in a blaze of glory, complete with angels and angelic music.

"Wait, how did you manage that when I lost everything?", Satan asks.
"Ah haha, God says, that's because 'Jesus saves!'"

<rimshot>

Oh, and MySQL is another little joke I've found.

"Prog runner"-this is a very old word from Apache language,it means
"The man with very pale face,deep at night looking through screen-glass at sand-glass"
................
For a long time such hypotesis existed: if we'll give a million typewriters for million monkeys,soon or after long time they will type something having a sense.But now,after the great development of Internet, we know that it's not a true...
............
Americans came in Russia and ask:
-when do you begin to use computers in education?
-errr...may be since 3 years old
-realy? may we look at that?
-sure.
In kindergarden room there are several notebooks on the table,children stands around.Educator say:
-Misha,please take this notebook and place it on the window sill.
-Masha,please take one more and place it on the chair.
-well,children,and how many computers are on the table now?
..............
Noob come to hacker and show him a source code:
-Do you know where is a problem here?
-Well... I see only one problem ,it may be in your initial code.
-Initial code?
-Yes.Genetical...
.............
Users in developing countries often ask: Can I take Windows message "This program has performed an illegal operation ...please contact directly the manufacturer of the..." as official ground to visit United States without visa at the expence of developer?
[smile]

[Edited by - Krokhin on August 16, 2009 2:30:58 AM]

Quote: Original post by Krokhin
"The skill of the programmer is not to write programs that work without errors, but to write programs that work despite of any number of errors."

That's quite true actually. :)

Quote: Original post by Krokhin
dr.Watson and S.Holmes fly on the balloon,cought in mist and lost a way.
After some time they down on small city,and see a guy.
Watson: Would you be so kind to tell where we are?
A man think some time, look at them and say: On the hot air balloon.
Holmes: Definitely he is a programmer.
Watson: Why?
Holmes: First, he thought before answering;secondly, he answered with absolute precision; and, thirdly, his answer is absolutely useless.

Extended version:

a man flying on the balloon,cought in mist and lost a way.
After some time he looks down on small city,and see a guy.
Balloonist: Would you be so kind to tell where we are?
A man think some time, look at them and say: On the hot air balloon.
Balloonist: you must be a programmer.
Man: Why?
Balloonist: First, you thought before answering;secondly, you answered with absolute precision; and, thirdly, your answer is absolutely useless.

Man: well, you must be in management.
Balloonist: actually I am. How did you know?

Man: you don't know where you are, what you're doing or where you're going. Yet somehow it's my fault.

Quote: Original post by ChaosEngine

Extended version:

a man flying on the balloon,cought in mist and lost a way.
After some time he looks down on small city,and see a guy.
Balloonist: Would you be so kind to tell where we are?
A man think some time, look at them and say: On the hot air balloon.
Balloonist: you must be a programmer.
Man: Why?
Balloonist: First, you thought before answering;secondly, you answered with absolute precision; and, thirdly, your answer is absolutely useless.

Man: well, you must be in management.
Balloonist: actually I am. How did you know?

Man: you don't know where you are, what you're doing or where you're going. Yet somehow it's my fault.

Thanks,but we don't like too long jokes.
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Holmes and Watson lie on the ground and look at the sky.
-How do you think,Watson,what a starry sky above us mean?
-Probably ,weather tomorrow will be nice?
-You are an idiot! Somebody stoil our tent...
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This and other jokes,stupid or not,appears as usual after popular movies.
In case of Holmes and Watson(imho) it began after

">this Holmes joke