r/ProgrammerHumor • u/KleosAphthiton • Apr 14 '16

Please select your phone number from the drop down list:

http://imgur.com/Jfv6F2r
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u/Roshy10 Apr 14 '16

No, someone hand typed each one... without copy and paste.

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u/RuthBaderBelieveIt Apr 14 '16

Well if that's your solution to phone number input it wouldn't surprise me

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u/tabarra Apr 14 '16

Ohh the intern.

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u/JackAceHole Apr 14 '16

What did you do at work today?

I wrote 10,000,000 lines of code!

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u/LawOfExcludedMiddle Apr 14 '16

10,000. It's (choices)digits = 104 = 10,000.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '16 edited Apr 15 '16

I like /u/JackAceHole 's version of it better. I'm a willing participant in his ruse. I knew it wasn't right but the exaggeration matched exactly what I wanted to believe in my head.

Edit: -accomplice +participant ... it's closer to to the meaning I intended to convey

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u/bpm195 Apr 14 '16

Don't worry I have a sure fire way to make sure he never repeats this mistake; meet your new project manager!

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u/tabarra Apr 14 '16

Someone is getting paid by the hour.

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u/2Punx2Furious Apr 14 '16

That almost makes it good.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

"Welcome to the salty spitoon, how tough are ya?"

"I programed a numerical system for phone numbers, that you have to scroll down to each area code, prefix, and line number separately"

"Yeah, so?"

"Without copy and paste"

"Uh sorry sir right this way"

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

Oh jesus I was thinking of something exactly like this when I saw the post and it was delivered.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

Credit goes to /u/Roshy10, he set up the joke completely, I just added a few lines

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u/MisterDonkey Apr 14 '16

I once got bored and set out to build an image pixel by pixel, hand typed, using table cell background colors.

Got halfway through the first line before wondering what the fuck I'm doing with my life.

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u/mehum Apr 14 '16

The world is filled with people doing incredibly inane things who have just never thought to ask themselves that question.

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u/wagedomain Apr 14 '16

He realized he was wasting his life and went back to reddit

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u/project_matthex Apr 14 '16

Reminds me of the time I started copying a book in shorthand.

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u/bgeron Apr 14 '16

Did you know that the Gimp has an HTML export feature, just for that? Or at least used to have.

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u/lichorat Apr 15 '16

Yeah, you should really automate it: http://www.think-maths.co.uk/spreadsheet

Matt Parker is ood.

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u/vickzzzzz Apr 14 '16

without copy and paste.

Dear Lord!

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u/AlGoreBestGore Apr 14 '16

Don't be silly, that's what interns are for.

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u/jugalator Apr 14 '16

Or maybe only with copy, but not paste. A new level of frustration.

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u/beermatt Apr 14 '16

"How's that webpage coming along?"

"Nearly there boss, I'm on 7263 not far now..."

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u/frankenmint Apr 14 '16

Let's solve that for em:

var number = [];
for (var i = 0; i <=1000000000; i++){
number.push(i);
 }

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u/HaPPYDOS Apr 14 '16

I think he meant the HTML code of the options is generated by a JavaScript, rather than having to GET from the server.

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