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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by stevage on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:55AM (#25857219)
I don't quite get the punchline. I understand how if you integrate in the wrong direction you get a negative area, but is there a double meaning here?
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by shard on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:00AM (#25857250)
I believe the implication is that all the plumbers are advanced degree holders, not just the engineer.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by lb1lf on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:05AM (#25857291)
-The idea is that all the plumbers are academics looking for the easy life. :)
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by stavros on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:06AM (#25858040)
The limits are the shackles of oppression, the integral is the proletariat and switching is disavowing capitalism and seizing the means of production.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by mst on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:05AM (#25858402)
That was completely unhelpful but also hilarious.

As such, a perfect russian joke.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by StavrosK on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:24AM (#25858536)
Thank you, that's what I was going for!
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by gmfawcett on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:07AM (#25858907)
I shall never look at calculus the same way again. :) Thank you, comrade!
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by zoom6628 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:25AM (#25858546)
Brilliant !
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by nvader on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:46PM (#25866309)
Too many levels of indirection.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by nvader on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:55PM (#25866403)
From the top:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866357

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by ayepif on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:05AM (#25857293)
They're all former academics/mathematicians!
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by infomax on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:11AM (#25857335)
They are all engineers in disguise.
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