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TIL about the greek question mark

Tell me, can you tell the difference between these two characters?

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[-] SomewhatOffBeat@ttrpg.network 115 points 1 year ago

Like r/programmerhumor, this community is already full of people who literally never programmed anything more than Hello World before.

[-] TimTamFlimFlam@discuss.tchncs.de 62 points 1 year ago

And just like Reddit you're complaining about it for absolutely no reason. How about we try to be a bit more welcoming and a bit less gatekeepery.

[-] IncognitoErgoCvm@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

That's kind of an absurd position when the explicit purpose of segmented communities is to gatekeep content.

[-] SomewhatOffBeat@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

I realize my attitude is negative, but r/programmerhumor was not my crowd and it looks like neither is this community. There is no place where I can find memes about a large part of my life and I'm frustrated.

"Missing semicolon", "light IDE is for psychopaths", "JS sucks", "AI is just if-statements", I just can't relate to those jokes and after the 100th repost I still don't think they're funny.

[-] fred@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your contribution appears to be solely whinging. If you want a certain type of content how about you post some and see if it catches on?

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

I'm curious, what would you prefer? Reposts suck, but dunking on the languages everyone agrees are bad and complaining about debugging is the only version of programmer humour I'm familiar with.

[-] SomewhatOffBeat@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 year ago

I found this blog article with some xkcd comics that I find hilarious, if that helps

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

XKCD is indeed awesome.

[-] r2vq@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

These are quite funny. Thank you

[-] Gsus4@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

my crowd

how about https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor ? this instance tends to attract more actual programmers

preemptive note: I'm not making a suggestion, I'm asking what you think.

[-] CommunityLinkFixer 3 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !programmer_humor@programming.dev

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

I realize my attitude is negative, but r/programmerhumor was not my crowd and it looks like neither is this community.

Sounds like a win for this community.

[-] anarchyrabbit@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 1 year ago

Just because a meme is not reality doesn't mean it can't be funny.

[-] exu@feditown.com 12 points 1 year ago

Did you expect anything different?

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

programming hello world is doing better than most people and I applaud and welcome beginners.

I am little more than an amateur myself, entirely self taught, and yet I'm forever digging into various bits of code for my marketing job, because paying someone $400 to fix a recalcitrant css style in a week and a half is worse than just doing it myself.

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Who the hell tries putting Greek question marks in their code? Like, I get most compilers will show you what character each error starts at, but still.

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