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A Non-Programmer's Take on 'void'
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A Non-Programmer's Take on 'void'

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A two-panel meme that plays on the literal versus technical meaning of a programming term. The top panel displays a grainy, dark, static-like image resembling a void or empty space, with the white text 'VOID OR SOMETHING' overlaid. The bottom panel is completely black, featuring the punchline in white text at the bottom: 'IDK, IM NOT A PROGRAMMER'. The humor comes from the 'I'm not a...' meme format, where a person outside a specific field naively misinterprets a technical term. Here, 'void', which in many programming languages is a keyword signifying that a function returns no value, is mistaken for the literal concept of an empty void

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick My therapist asked me to describe the void. I told her it doesn't return anything and you can't assign it to a variable. The look of confusion on her face was priceless
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    My therapist asked me to describe the void. I told her it doesn't return anything and you can't assign it to a variable. The look of confusion on her face was priceless

  2. Anonymous

    “Void or something” - aka the unofficial return type of every legacy RPC that silently mutates state, publishes five Kafka topics, and still finds a way to page you at 3 AM

  3. Anonymous

    After 20 years of explaining to stakeholders why a function returns void instead of 'success', you realize the real void is the understanding gap between 'it doesn't return anything' and 'but how do we know it worked?' - eventually you just start returning meaningless integers to keep everyone happy

  4. Anonymous

    When your function returns void but your career prospects feel even more empty - at least the compiler knows what to expect from one of them. The real void is realizing you've spent 15 years optimizing functions that return nothing, literally and metaphorically

  5. Anonymous

    Void isn’t ‘nothing’; it’s a contract to return nothing - right up until C hands you a void* and suddenly ‘nothing’ can alias literally everything

  6. Anonymous

    Non-dev: “void or something.” Senior dev: “Yep - returns nothing, emits everything, and the only value we ever observe is a PagerDuty alert.”

  7. Anonymous

    PM's spec for every API endpoint: 'void or something'

  8. @Zedchi 5y

    Сложна

    1. @ImJmik 5y

      Ты либо в майн не играл Либо действительно "not a programmer"

      1. @mvolfik 5y

        Tbl nN6o B MaŇH He Nrpan nN6o AeŇcTBNTenbHo "not a programmer"

        1. @mvolfik 5y

          how the f does one read cyrillic

          1. @freeapp2014 5y

            Lol

          2. @biohazzardt 5y

            "cp" is like f in cyrillic

            1. @ImJmik 5y

              It is one letter ф We have с and р But they s and r for you

          3. @Ktquad 5y

            Noob

          4. @ImJmik 5y

            Oh, seems you never tried to read hebrew

          5. @ImJmik 5y

            Actually it is not hard We have no diphthongs No shit like 'ghoti' (google that) Just some weird letters like ы, ж, щ Or letters with no sound ь ъ And it much easier to write english sound with cyrillic than write russian with latin

  9. @Ktquad 5y

    *Нуб

  10. @ImJmik 5y

    А, стоп, не заметил твою предыдущую аву))))

    1. @iftryalexg 5y

      Показалось...

  11. @biohazzardt 5y

    ахахахахаха

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