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10 Weird Things Only Programmers Will Understand [Part 1]

Programmers know a lot about programming. They also know a lot about computers. But let's explore something amazing!

By Unbounded SoulPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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10 Weird Things Only Programmers Will Understand [Part 1]
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Programmers can often be found doing things that aren’t very useful or practical. They’re also known to be really good at explaining how they did something.

Being a programmer is a busy job with a lot of responsibility. There are a lot of really strange things that only other programmers will understand. Even if you’ve never used a computer in your life, chances are you’ll have heard a colleague saying “I smell a bug” or “type error”. Programmers are specialists in the computer world and they often see things that nobody else does. The vast majority of programmers heavily rely on context and have their code suffer from it. This is why they deserve this post, which is a list of 10 strange things that only programmers will understand. Read on to find out more.

N°1: "Solve your coding problems while you are sleeping" - Not By Warren Buffett

Yeah, you heard it right!

There is a saying that,

“People sleep when they are depressed and try to forget their pain.”

But for programmers, when they sleep after having frustration with their bugs or code error that they couldn’t solve and have no idea why they occurred in the first place, they somehow manage to find the error after waking up.

Probably some eternal angel comes to their sleep and tells them what’s wrong, and they somehow can solve the problem after that life-saving nap.

This happened to me tons of times, and so I believe it's worth sharing!

N°2: Are programmers using Math symbols in their coding?

Once upon a time, a 10th-grade kid asked me, why are programmers using maths in their coding? is it that much important to learn maths to be a programmer?

She was talking about,

  • '='
  • '=='
  • '==='
  • '!='

I love that, how innocent thought she got! I explain to her the things and their meaning of them.

= A single equal mark is used to assign a value to a variable.

== Used to check whether two expressions give the same value.

=== Returns true if both operands are of the same type and contain the same value.

!= The use of not equal; comes from the maths symbol ≠.

N°3: Counting starts from zero, not one [Array Fact]

Suppose you have to count ten oranges. You will obviously count from 1, but programmers often mistake counting and start from 0. Just because they need to use that method in programming, it somehow becomes a habit for some.

N°4: Copy Paste is Life

If copy - paste option did not exist in the technology world, I don’t know what thousands of programmers would have done in their careers. It does not mean their work is just copy-pasting, but the value of these copy-paste keys (CTRL+C for copying and CTRL+V for pasting) and of Github, StackOverflow, Beingcoders, and other coding forums— you will never understand if you are not a programmer.

N°5: Parents May Kill their Child (Not Creepy Thing - Read it)

It’s just a basic logic method to work in the operating system. I will not go into details, but let me explain you.

A parent process creates a child process using a fork() system call. A parent process may have multiple child processes, but a child process has only one parent process.

So you see, it’s not about human beings. But parent kills their children if the assigned task is not needed anymore. That’s how an operating system works.

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Unbounded Soul

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