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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

This meme was made by someone who has never had truly bad sex/documentation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

Is getting a face full of pussy that stinks like a litter box better than no pussy at all? πŸ€”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 38 minutes ago

Good example! My point exactly!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 42 minutes ago

When it's bad, it's life changing in a traumatic way.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I've had to use outdated documentation that made the problem worse. So I guess bad documentation is like bad, unprotected sex with a lot lizard that leaves you with an itching or burning sensation.

[–] flambonkscious 2 points 1 hour ago

I've been there... (In a work/corporate context, at least)

I'll leave 'the night work' out of it, however (damn, the glitter gets everywhere!)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago

Respectfully disagree. Sometimes the documentation is so bad that you have more questions than answers and even then, what they provide still doesn't really explain how to do something with enough details. It's all literally shot in the dark and you're just left with leap of faith. * cough * Sonicwall * cough *

[–] [email protected] 25 points 13 hours ago

Incidentally, both bad sex and code documentation both involve std vectors.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"Documentation is like sex: You're not getting any"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Damn haha, this made me laugh out loud

[–] [email protected] 24 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Bad documentation could land you in prison.

Bad sex is just horrible all around.

not sure what this post is on about

[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I would say bad sex can land you in a prison too.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Then you haven’t seen bad documentation (or had that sex you regret).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

In general it’s supposed to be something good so it shouldn’t be harmful, but ofc exceptions exist, especially with sex, sadly…

Bad often equals "not super good" in this context

[–] [email protected] 36 points 17 hours ago

Completely incorrect - bad documentation can be actively harmful, wasting your time with its inaccuracies.

[–] Console_Modder 48 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Absolutely not. I'd rather have no documentation and start from scratch than be gaslit by an entire team of people telling me that the very obviously wrong documentation is correct and has been correct for 30 years

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

I can name a few examples of this

[–] agamemnonymous 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I think there's a difference between bad and wrong. Wrong documentation is incorrect. Bad documentation isn't really incorrect, it's just poorly executedb and mostly unhelpful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, incorrect documentation is clearly bad, so...

[–] agamemnonymous 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Seemed more like the problem was the gaslighting than the documentation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Wrong documentation is still a pretty big problem, even without the gaslighting. Incomplete documentation is better than none; incorrect documentation is not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That documentation sounds like marriage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Someone's never read instructions autotranslated from Chinese and not checked for accuracy.

[–] lemon 7 points 18 hours ago

Literally me yesterday trying to decipher Baidu’s PaddleOCR docs. Have half a mind to aim Claude Code at the URL and just be like β€˜plz help’

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

Well, sometimes I ask questions to the AI and makes the same sense.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Bad sex is not better than no sex.... Wtf... :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

the person who wrote this hasn't had bad sex yet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I guess its also our culture where sex is seen as the most important thing in life. So everyone is convinced their entire value consists of how much mating they are doing. Maybe that would be true if we were breeding animals but we are not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

weird, i do not know of this culture and I'm glad cuz I'd be worthless

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

It's different from person to person. The most consistent thing I've found is people trying to fit each other into a cultural box

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

As an asexual person this anology is very confusing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago)

Also asexual.

Just consider most people really like sex, and some experience it as a very intense physical want to the point it makes sense that a bad version of it is better than none at all. Sort of similar to food. Better to have bad-tasting food and at least sate your hunger than to have nothing and starve.

Although, of course, it breaks down. The comments talk about actively harmful sex people wouldn't want as well as harmful documentation; bad sex and documentation is not actually always better than no sex or no documentation. In the analogy, this would be sex that gives you an STD, or documentation that sends you running in circles and misleads you.

I've found a lot of understanding sex comes with just understanding a lot of people really really want it and experience it as a nigh-on need. Maybe liken it to some intense desires you have, things you need to be happy that you nonetheless don't need to survive. (Of course, this is a generalization, I understand not all people with sexual desires have them this intensely. Some don't need it to be happy but would sure like it a lot. And some might even get it more mildly. But for the purpose of understanding more mainstream jokes, analogies, etc. about sex…)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe it can be translated into something else, like, "Documentation is like toilet paper, when it's good it's good, when it's bad it's better than nothing"? Or, "Documentation is like clothes, even if they are bad it's better than nothing", or "Documentation is like having something you need, it's better to have the thing you need even if is not good, than to not have the thing you need at all"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

I like the analogy with toilet paper. Because when its bad, the very thing that was supposed to help you, got you covered in shit with no back out plan, making it that much worse.

Very fitting

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

As a sexual person, I agree

[–] [email protected] 26 points 20 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago

When it's bad you think "Fuck this, I can do it better by myself."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Deal, I've got plenty of small hobby projects that can use some!

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