Trivia Programmer

These programmers don't know actually how to write code from scratch or engineer anything; They watch youtube videos online on leetcode and the dry principle 100 times over. They can be intern vloggers, or some layed off PR intern from a big corporation. They commit to open source projects (documentation) and have a soft filter background pfp (With a bland tshirt, short hair or extremely long hair, it's binary; And talk in a very monotone soft voice). Their daily routine consists of waking up, reviewing all the trivia for their language, going into work and not being able to debug anything. However they can talk up a storm, just not actually be the engineers they're required to be. They job hop to the next job before anyone can figure out they actually don't know what they're doing. In meetings they will spit out all the trivia they know, keeping up the act long enough so the manager doesn't notice anything.

Person A: "You remember Jerry? On lunch yesterday he was talking about how he made project x and y in this framework, and how our systems can be completely re-written and improved within a month on this new cool framework he couldn't stop talking about"

Person B: "Oh yea I remember him, he seemed knowledgeable, he passed our medium and hard questions easily."

Person A: "Yea, haha thought the same thing. Turns out he just sat around doing leetcode all day, but I don't know if he even knows what a breakpoint is"

Person B: "His github was really nice!"

Person A: "Well he couldn't debug anything, I ended up doing all the work for him. I think he was just a Trivia Programmer"

Person B: "Really?"

Person A: "Yea he kept asking the same questions, didn't write anything down, never saw any improvements even though I was helping him. I think he just new a lot of trivia, but he can't code"

Person B: "Oh a Trivia Programmer"

Person A: "Yea, last I checked he's making lofi hiphop soft filter videos online about the dry principle. I don't think he applied it in any of his work"

Person B: "His latest video is 'Former Senior Startup Executive Developer Advice' and 'Doing Leetcode As An Intern'"

by cynical idiot May 25, 2023

tuple-programming

In programming languages, such as Lisp, Python, Linda, and others, a tuple (pronounced TUH-pul) is an ordered set of values. tuple-programming is a new agile software development practice where a group of more than 2 programmers sit around a workstation and work together on a problem.

The AI team at Cresta is tuple-programming this afternoon.

by strin May 17, 2019

visual basic programmer

someone who *thinks* they know how to program, but in reality is pretty average... almost always don't really understand the inner workings of a computer... they get scared by things like call stacks, registers, pointers, assembly, or anything that has to do with the guts of a computers...

also, they are generally not smart enough to do embedded development...

embedded developer: i just hacked the can bus in my car... used a philips tja1050 transceiver, paired it up to a mcf5485 coldfire, developed the logger and gauge renderer in C (gasp!) using codewarrior and spat the image data out to the tft in my car to have virtual gauges on everything!

what have you developed lately?

visual basic programmer: an ftp server...

embedded developer: oh... cool...

by champski April 3, 2009

Programming

The Best way to ... everything! Seriously you can program when you're:

Sad, Happy, Dancing, Sweating, Running, Jogging, Sing, Eating a Banana, Listenning to Britney Spears, Ignoring a Britney Spears Concert, Sitting, Standing, Baby-Sitting, Baby-Standing, Dressing, Undressing, Looking, Feeling, Living (preferably), Dying (although you might have better things to be doing), searching, meeting, throwing, dazing, shooting, carpetting, doing homework, breaking, screwing, Distressed, disgruntled, angry, pressed, stressed, etc. You get the point.

But I find it extremely useful right after a break-up. See example....

int main()
{

struct girl {
int happy_level;
char next_action(100);
int execute_action();
int render_action();
}

girl Susan = new girl;
Susan.happy_level -= 1000000000;
Susan.next_action = "Jump off cliff";
if(Susan.execute_action())
{
Susan.render_action();
}
else
{
cout<<"The action could not be executed. Susan's life will now become hell."<<endl;

while(1)
{
Susan.happy_level -= 1;
}
}
}

by Veggie April 3, 2005

dynamic programming

In computer science, dynamic programming (short: DP) is a method for reducing the runtime of algorithms exhibiting the properties of overlapping subproblems and optimal substructure.

Mathematician Richard Bellman invented dynamic programming in 1953. The field was founded as a systems analysis and engineering topic which is recognized by the IEEE.

The problem looks too hard to solve - it must be dynamic programming!

by Your SCAR Grandpa June 26, 2006

programming language

A language created to write codes, that can make computers do things you don't want to.

Despite the belief, that some programming language is always the best choice, it's not. I can't make C++ write a website, or make JavaScript to build a open world 3D game, so stop the debate. If your goal is to work for a small company then JAVA or C# is your best bet. If you want to design games and media then learn C++. If you want to work for a big Fortune 100 company or for the government then learn COBOL. If you are interested in computer science and want to write utilities, operating systems, or compilers then choose C or assembly language.

by I am the one who knocks November 2, 2013

paid programming

what is on when youve accidently fallen asleep in front of the tv, or when your too lazy to turn off the tv because your on the internet.
also known as infomercials

john: agh tv woke me up in the middle of the night, paid programming was on
bill: hm interesting.. you know insomniacs use to watch paid programming before the internet was born.

matt: omg i seriously had the craziest dream last night
zack: yea what happened
matt: billy mays was convincing me to buy OxiClean

by jeny April 6, 2008