A software developer's wife asked him to get a gallon of milk from the store

3 months ago by RacerX to c/programmer_humor

"... and if they have eggs, get a dozen, " she added.

He later came home with 12 gallons of milk.

"Why'd you get so much milk!?!" his wife asked.

He replies, "THEY HAD EGGS!"

Susaga 109 points 3 months ago

Alternate version:

"While you're there, pick up some bread," she added. He never returned.

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0xDREADBEEF 18 points 3 months ago

and when he returned empty-handed he answered "I then set the bread back down"

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CalcProgrammer1 10 points 3 months ago

Obviously someone else then took the bread, the only way to break the cycle.

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MonkeMischief 7 points 3 months ago

"Some say he's still there picking up bread to this day..."

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CallMeAl 29 points 3 months ago

Should have gotten 13 gallons.

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Oisteink 27 points 3 months ago

No - he was asked to bring 1 or 12, not 1 and 12

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CallMeAl 33 points 3 months ago

try reading it again. Wife clearly says "and" not "or"

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vinnymac 22 points 3 months ago

The comma operator would like to have a word with you. I see a pause after eggs, 12 gallons it is

https://developer.mozilla.org/...

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CallMeAl 7 points 3 months ago

Doesn't change it.

Wife adds 1 gallon of milk to shopping list;

Wife adds ( eggs, dozen) gallons of milk to shopping list;

Shopping list has 1 gallon and a dozen gallons for a total of 13 gallons.

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4am 1 point 3 months ago

Found the BSAs

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RacerX 6 points 3 months ago

I like the discussion in this thread.

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HairyHarry 29 points 3 months ago

"Buy two forks. Buy two forks for every fork you buy."

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 22 points 3 months ago

:(){ :|:& };:

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HairyHarry 12 points 3 months ago

Aahh, the ol' botox lips, raised monobrow, grumpy face and the two toothed irony wiking emoticons.

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tetris11 1 point 3 months ago

isn't this loss?

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newton 7 points 3 months ago

This is old ,the forkbomb !

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Wilco 8 points 3 months ago

What? They apparently had eggs. If, then, else.

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Codpiece 6 points 3 months ago

Requirements unclear.

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AlteE 2 points 3 months ago

I still don't understand why he managed to get 12 gallons and not 11 or even 10.

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unitedwithme 14 points 3 months ago

So get a gallon of milk, and IF they have eggs, get a dozen (gallons of milk). Basically this is an if statement meaning if X is true, do this. Well normally we think get a dozen would be get 12 eggs, but because "have eggs = true" that meant get 12 gallons of milk. The opposite would've been eggs=false and he'd come home with 1 gallon.

I'm not a Dev so I can't write the code better, but I understand the language enough

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db2 17 points 3 months ago

eggs?(milk=12):(milk=1);

return milk;

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AlteE 6 points 3 months ago

Ahh, my bad. I forgot that in English dozen means 12 but dosens means 10*n with n > 1.

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unitedwithme 11 points 3 months ago

NP. We don't even use dosens in America so I learned something new!

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eager_eagle 2 points 3 months ago

people say tens for multiples of 10

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