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Coding Priorities: The Star Pattern Before the Date
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Coding Priorities: The Star Pattern Before the Date

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A four-panel comic strip depicting a programmer's skewed priorities. In the first panel, a young man in a pink hoodie brings an interested woman home. In the second panel, she waits for him suggestively on the bed while he sits at his desk, turned away from her. The third panel reveals what has captured his full attention: a laptop screen displaying five lines of C code using the `printf` function to manually create a right-angled triangle pattern of asterisks, a classic beginner's coding exercise. The final panel shows the man dejected and alone, walking outside in the cold, while the woman looks down at him from the window. The meme humorously illustrates the stereotype of a programmer so engrossed in solving even the most trivial coding problem that they neglect a romantic opportunity, ultimately leading to their rejection

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick His romance algorithm had a fatal flaw: it was single-threaded and the 'print pattern' process had higher priority, leading to a relationship deadlock
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    His romance algorithm had a fatal flaw: it was single-threaded and the 'print pattern' process had higher priority, leading to a relationship deadlock

  2. Anonymous

    When you bail on a date to hand-craft a star pyramid with five hard-coded printf’s, it’s not a work-life balance problem - it’s a red flag that your logging strategy still thinks stdout is a database

  3. Anonymous

    She left because I told her my debugging strategy was "eventually consistent" - just like our relationship status across different microservices

  4. Anonymous

    The real tragedy here isn't the relationship ending - it's that he's using printf() for pattern generation instead of a proper nested loop with string multiplication. At least his code has better error handling than his personal life: it terminates gracefully with '\n' while his relationship just segfaulted

  5. Anonymous

    print('girlfriend') # ; // TODO: post-bugfix

  6. Anonymous

    The only five stars tonight were hard-coded with printf; I bailed - if we’re still shipping literals instead of a loop, this relationship isn’t going to scale

  7. Anonymous

    Hand‑unrolled the star pyramid with five printf calls - constant-time runtime, linear LOC, and unbounded relationship debt

  8. @tarasssssssssssssss 5y

    С++ sucks or what?😅 I don't get it;(

    1. @RiedleroD 5y

      no, but it's a horrendous printing style.

    2. @average_meni_na_drugu_enjoyer 5y

      and thats C

      1. @RiedleroD 5y

        not necessarily. C++ can use C functions as well.

    3. @obuyadude 5y

      I think he's pissed that she didn't do it in a loop like normal people should 😔

  9. @RiedleroD 5y

    not necessarily. C++ can use C functions as well.

  10. @tarasssssssssssssss 5y

    Guys, I wrote several thousands lines in c++ and https://www.programiz.com/cpp-programming/library-function/cstdio/printf

    1. @bit69tream 5y

      and what?

      1. @tarasssssssssssssss 5y

        I don't care about c and c++...

    2. @bit69tream 5y

      c++ standard library is a combination of C standard library and C++ stuff

      1. @tarasssssssssssssss 5y

        what are you trying to prove?😅

        1. @bit69tream 5y

          i thought i ment that this is not C but C++

          1. @tarasssssssssssssss 5y

            и шо? о_О Чел, они одинаковые в этой ситуации, как ты можешь доказывать что это С, а не С++? о_О

            1. Deleted Account 5y

              std::

              1. @bit69tream 5y

                можно спихнуть на using namespace std;

                1. Deleted Account 5y

                  лучше не надо

                  1. @bit69tream 5y

                    это понятно

            2. @bit69tream 5y

              ну вообще они не могут быть одинаковыми, это разные япы и я не доказывал, что это именно C, а не C++

  11. @Withouthatewithoutfear 5y

    That is c code c++ we normally use cout

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