programmer's tan

The pasty white tan of a person who works over eighty hours a week and never gets any sun.

Bill's been doing a lot of hours lately -- he's really working on his programmer's tan.

by Mike Ellis April 9, 2004

Poorhammer

1. Playing Warhammer or Warhammer 40k without the expensive models produced by Games Workshop. Typically using cut out pieces of cardboard or slips of paper, painstakingly cut into the proper sizes and marked.

Dude screw going to the game-store, they won't let us poorhammer players join in.

My hand is so cramped from cutting poorhammer pieces all last night.

by Everplayer September 17, 2010

progamer6073

A mythical youtuber from Polmak Norway.

youtuber rapper progamer6073

by progamerfan March 19, 2021

Programmer

A programmer is a human, rock, or any other object capable of turning pizza and caffeine into code. Programmers minds are very complex - they like to explain things in ways that a normal human would not understand, and makes jokes that only programmers would laugh at.

Programmer 1: You create a gun module, a gun class, a foot module and a foot class. After realising you can't point the gun at the foot, you pass a reference to the gun to a foot object. After the foot is blown up, the gun object remains alive for eternity, ready to shoot all future feet that may happen to appear.

Programmer 2: BWAHAHAHAHAAHHA

Programmer 1: I even have one about Java!
You find that Microsoft and Sun have released imcompatible class libraries both implementing Gun objects. You then find that although there are plenty of feet objects implemented in the past in many other languages, you cannot get access to one. But seeing as Java is so cool, you dont care and go around shooting anything else you can find.

by Quojil February 21, 2014

programmer

One who can read the following example

if( !User.IsProgrammer ){
return "Everyone Else";
}

by John Standish October 19, 2007

Ghost Programmer

In software development, "Ghost Programmer" is a programmer that works for another person's task and receives no credit. This applies for programmers who doesn't have any project assigned to him/her; yet he is forced to join a certain team in a project and works for them secretly making sure the client would not know. When a ghost programmer finished his assigned task, the name/credits that will be written in the code and the document is the one who was originally assigned to that certain task.

Boss: Our project is delayed. We need help from someone. John, can you help with this bug fix?
John: Sure.

After 4 hours..

John: Boss, i'm finished.
Boss: Okay, since you're a ghost programmer, the client should not know about it.. So, the name you should write on the code and the document is the programmer who is originally assigned to it. Okay? :)
John: Okay. (Man! I'm such a ghost programmer. I also want some credits.. )

by blitzkrrieg September 21, 2016

cardboard programmer

You've just spent the whole day trying to solve a problem, a design problem, a bug, etc. You know the solution is simple but you just can't see it.

A colleague walks past and notices your anguish: "What's up?".

"Oh, I'm ...". You explain the problem and what you have done so far. However you suddenly discover the solution before you have finished speaking! So far your colleague has been as useful as a cardboard cutout.

This happens often and I think it is due to you having to present your problem to someone in a way that you think will aid their understanding, often dispensing with some of the details. In doing so, you also clarify your own thoughts, untying them in your mind to eventually cite a solution.

Sometimes all it needs is a cardboard cutout of your favorite GURU!

-- RussFreeman.

Also sometimes known as a Programmer's Dummy - DarrenTarbard

My Cardboard Programmer was outsourced to a shoebox in India.

by cellular January 21, 2015