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transcriptA meme saying: "STOP DOING COMPUTER SCIENCE"

  • Computers were supposed to solve math, NOT to be programmed
  • C is a LETTER, not a language
  • Wanna print() something? Write it in a PAPER with a PEN
  • "I'm writing a recursive method with threads to optimize the CPU usage in a 0.02%" THIS IS A NONSENSICAL STATEMENT MADE BY DERANGED PEOPLE

Look at what PROGRAMMERs have been demanding your respect for, after all the led lights we put in their computers: (This is real COMPUTER SCIENCE, done by real COMPUTER SCIENTISTS)

  • FUNNY COLORED LETTERS (with a picture of syntax-highlighted code)
  • 178 COMPILATION ERRORS????? (with a picture of compilation errors
  • A FAKE TEAPOT YOU CAN'T USE (with a picture of a 3d rendered teapot.

IF PROGRAMMING WAS REAL HOW COME NOBODY THOUGH IN DOING while(true{print(money);}

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

:) + Bitcoin mining :
while(true{print(money);}

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"Write it in a paper"...I'm not sure how that works but I am very curious

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Write so hard out of anger that you rip the paper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Just use a printer! It’s in the name!!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

If you go back far enough, you'd be coding the ENIAC via punchcards.

... Or maybe today you could write code on paper and have an AI augmented OCR system try to run it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Weimar Republic thought of exactly that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Developer here: can confirm. (#4 is actually true.)

[–] xmunk 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Indeed, anytime I optimize code, it ends up taking more CPU to run.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Honestly I'm disappointed. The reasons exposed here are much too weak.

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