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tirinhaEN-43

Method Names

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Method Names

Original: Nomes dos métodos

/* True story sent by Gabriel Fonseca */
Boss: The names of your methods aren’t obvious…
Programmer: What do you mean?
Boss: The point is that I never know which verb was used
Programmer: exclude() isn’t obvious?
Boss: ‘Exclude’ is the worst! It has to be ‘delete’ because it’s the same letter
Programmer: BUT WHAT LETTER??
–
T-shirt: Go figure
Backup

Backup

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Backup

Original: Backup

/* true story sent by Washington Aquino */
Programmer: Do you have an updated backup from the database? I’ll need to restore it.
Support: Backup??? Oh, sure, I have it…
(At the computer)
DROP DATABASE?
OK!
Programmer: Can you send me the backup, please?
Support: Well… backup??? uh… I was embarrassed to tell it… But I don’t know what a Backup is
–
T-Shirt: Why didn’t I go to med school?
tirinhaEN-36

Confidential

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/* True story sent by Aloisio Almeida Jr */
Wife: Darling, you never told what you’re working on
Programmer: It’s because my actual project is classified…
Wife: What??? Are you saying you don’t trust me?!?
Programmer: HUMPF… ok, I tell you…
15 minutes later (after a “for dummies” explanation)
Programmer: So, this is it… Got it?
Wife: Oh, no… But I don’t care…

Original: Confidencial

tirinhaEN-35

F5

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/* True story sent by bruno */
Boss: That form you made on site isn’t working…
Programmer: Wait a minute… I’ll fix it…
Programmer: And… It’s done.
Boss: Alright, I’ll see it…
Hours later…
Boss: Weird… When you told me that it’s done, that form wasn’t working yet… It started to work only a couple of hours later, after I press F5

Original: F5