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When Your Partner is a C Programmer
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The image is a meme featuring the 'Awkward Moment Seal' or 'Bad Joke Seal'. The seal is looking at the camera with a slightly tilted head and a cringe-worthy expression. The top text reads 'BF TOLD ME I AM HIS NUMBER ONE' and the bottom text reads 'HE WORKS AS A C PROGRAMMER'. The joke is a classic pun for developers, playing on the fact that arrays in the C programming language are zero-indexed, meaning the first element is at index 0 and the second is at index 1. Therefore, being 'number one' implies being the second, not the first, in the sequence
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My C programmer boyfriend calls me his number one. I'm still trying to figure out who index zero is
When a C dev calls you “number one,” you’re flattered until you remember you might just be *(p + 1) and there’s someone else at *p
After 20 years of debugging off-by-one errors in production, you'd think we'd learn to clarify whether we're using cardinal or ordinal numbering in our relationship status updates. Though to be fair, at least she's not undefined behavior
The real tragedy here isn't being index 1 instead of 0 - it's that she's probably stored in a fixed-size array with no bounds checking, and he's already caused three buffer overflows this week by forgetting to null-terminate his compliments
gf[0] = true_love; gf[1] = 'number one' - C devs' idea of topping the priority queue
When a C dev says you’re “number one,” confirm the index origin before you ship an a[0] surprise to production
"You're my number one," says the C programmer - zero-based or one-based? I don't want to be second to a dangling pointer
Zero jokes? Comment deleted
Yes Comment deleted
Він по ходу з БД працює Comment deleted
Please add a translation of your message because this is English-only chat. You can use every language you want while you provide a translation or mark your message as untranslatable. It is night in UTC+3 (Moscow time), and maybe for you. If true, sorry for night ping (Your message is probably written in Ukrainian, so I can't understand it) Comment deleted
He’s probably doin sum serious sql stuff Comment deleted
She must be an index in a for loop. Comment deleted
UTC+2 + summer +1 hour Comment deleted
Why it's written two times? Comment deleted
Makes it twice as funnier Comment deleted
because some will understand this joke the first time ;-) Comment deleted
They can live not only in Ukraine Comment deleted
It was 2:25 AM. Not that late Comment deleted