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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by dmingod666 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:31AM (#25857466)
0 if the bottle is empty.

1 if its hot.

-1 when its cold :D

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by the_gipsy on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:21AM (#25857760)
Ah yes the triple-boolean
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by sethammons on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:13AM (#25858455)
Reminds me of our five value boolean we used to have: is_deleted. Woe to person who expected that to be 1 or 0. Five distinct and overloaded values were possible, though I now forget them. Probably something like pending, fully deleted, being restored, not deleted, and restored.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by dmingod666 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:14AM (#25859626)
like linux app return codes.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by rzzzt on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:41AM (#25858666)
A ternary logic computer to go with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by ljm on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:15AM (#25860454)
FileNotFound if it's none of those
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by mrob on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:34PM (#25862254)
As reported in the famous Daily WTF post:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_

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