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Whenever I visit /r/programmerhumor I get kind of sad. I feel like 10 years ago there was a sense of pride and camaraderie among programmers. Programmers strov

• avgDev 7y ago
  Honestly, it is 100% students/fresh grads. Recently, I copied a SQL query and spend few hours trying to understand it, then DBA reviewed it. I can't imagine anyone just going to copy/paste from stackoverflow. However, I just remember that Nissan mobile app had code copy/pasted from stackoverflow. Going to read your old code takes some time to understand. Sometimes it even feels like someone else wrote it, but in order to provide fixes one must first understand it, then fix the bug. This cannot be copied from anywhere. That subreddit is either very fresh juniors or cs students or people who are just getting away with being "that guy" on the team.
  • saagarjha 7y ago
    The subreddit is currently like that. About three years ago it was extremely high quality, but it ended up on the front page too many times, got overran by people who couldn’t understand the humor, and went through too many bad volume control/JavaScript bad posts. I’m extremely sad to see where it is now…
    • renewiltord 7y ago
      Hmm, looking through archive.org it looks like four years ago it was more The Daily WTF and today it's mostly like memegen. Top of front page (4 years ago): My teacher thinks he's a programmer http://i.imgur.com/32nfQXZ.png http://i.imgur.com/32nfQXZ.png Top now: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/fvhk9l/a_bridge_too_far/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/fvhk9l/a_b...
      • saagarjha 7y ago
        The actual posts were slightly better, but the comments were much better. Often you’d have some sort of silly joke but the comments would have extensive, detailed discussion by people who knew their stuff on tangential topics.
        • renewiltord 7y ago
          Pulled the front page from Apr 5 2016 so folks can compare a few posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4d6vl5/had_to_take_a_career_compatibility_test_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4d6vl5/had... https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4dd6nx/my_teacher_thinks_he_is_a_programmer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4dd6nx/my_... https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4dcjfc/code_mode/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4dcjfc/cod... https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4dfjag/tell_me_its_not_what_i_think_it_is/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4dfjag/tel...
• baby 7y ago
  I realized recently that we're all working on top of abstractions created from the people below us. You're working on assembly stuff? Cool, you're just using a tool that people created for you by designing the x86 instruction set. You're working on a compiler? Cool, you're just using a tool that people created for you by designing machine code. You're working on a system language? Cool, you're just using a tool that people created for you to translate some baby language into machine code. You're working on a high-level language? You're working with a web framework? You're working with ... ... In the end you realize that the people you're talking about are just the people in the layer above you, or sitting in the middle, and you're a noob to the people sitting below you.
  • battery_cowboy 7y ago
    It blows my mind how many layers there are between us and the actual chip physics (the gates and other transistors). There's like 20 hardware layers of abstraction and another 20 software layers, probably, maybe more!
    • acemarke 7y ago
      One of my favorite classic articles is this post from 2003 by Eric Sink, "The .NET Abstraction Pile", which lists 46 separate abstractions that are involved from clicking the "Check In" button in a networked version control system: https://ericsink.com/Abstraction_Pile.html https://ericsink.com/Abstraction_Pile.html