It's curious to see how these quotes add over time and how they progress from dad jokes to more sophisticated, event statements

  Empty your memory, with a free(), like a pointer.\nIf you cast a pointer to a integer, it becomes the integer.\nIf you cast a pointer to a struct, it becomes the struct.\nThe pointer can crash, and can overflow.\nBe a pointer my friend."

  Freedom of expression is like the air we breathe, we don't feel it, until people take it away from us.\n\nFor this reason, Je suis Charlie, not because I endorse everything they published, but because I cherish the right to speak out freely without risk even when it offends others.\nAnd no, you cannot just take someone's life for whatever he/she expressed.\n\nHence this \"Je suis Charlie\" edition.\n

"Linkedin is basically a reversed Tinder.\nHot girls write to nerd guys and they didn't reply."

I stumbled on this one before. Still one of my favorite quotes:

---

"Francis bacon"

"Knowledge is power. France is bacon.

When I was young my father said to me: "Knowledge is power, Francis Bacon." I understood it as "Knowledge is power, France is bacon."

For more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the second part and what was the surreal linkage between the two. If I said the quote to someone, "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon", they nodded knowingly. Or someone might say, "Knowledge is power" and I'd finish the quote "France is Bacon" and they wouldn't look at me like I'd said something very odd, but thoughtfully agree. I did ask a teacher what did "Knowledge is power, France is bacon" mean and got a full 10-minute explanation of the "knowledge is power" bit but nothing on "France is bacon". When I prompted further explanation by saying "France is bacon?" in a questioning tone I just got a "yes". At 12 I didn't have the confidence to press it further. I just accepted it as something I'd never understand.

It wasn't until years later I saw it written down that the penny dropped. "

I guess with a C++ file this big, you need some humor to keep your sanity.

Anyway, this one resonated with me: "vi has two modes - 'beep repeatedly' and 'break everything'"

Here is another interesting one: "A cookie has no soul, it's just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs there's the potential for life", Jean-Claude van Damme

In a more legible format:

https://gist.github.com/jwilk/2ff552b4f12ac758297cbb81b9991a...

{TEXT("Anonymous #136"), QuoteParams::rapid, true, SC_CP_UTF8, L_TEXT, TEXT("Documentation is like sex:\nwhen it's good, it's very, very good;\nwhen it's bad, it's better than nothing.")},

Damn you Anonymous #136!!!!!!!

> "Vidiu Platon": "I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!"

And now we have Docker :)

I actually tested a bunch of those on GH Copilot -- sure enough, it does autocomplete certain prompts. No wonder, some are probably known quotes. Anyway, when I'm feeling down in my VSCode environment, I enter some random prompts in search of a pun. Most of the time it's just random rambling but hey:

# (prompt: my dog ...) seems to be interested in the plot.

# I wonder what the dog is thinking about.

# Probably about the food.

# I should feed him.

under some code where I was plotting a forecast.

Imagining the shock when these show up in Codepilot auto suggestions..

Oh great notepad of the lake, what is your wisdom?

"Social media does not make people stupid. It just makes stupid people more visible."

My favourite one so far:

> No one ever makes a billion dollars.

> You TAKE a billion dollars.

Quite relevant to the vulture capitalists and their fans who frequent this site.

Translations for the few quotes that are in French:

> Je mange donc je chie. — Don Ho

"I eat therefore I shit." It's a pun on René Descartes' "Je pense donc je suis" (I think, therefore I am).

> Mathématiquement, un cocu est un entier qui partage sa moitié avec un tiers.

"Mathematically, a cuckold is a whole who shares his half with a third [party]."

> Si un jour une chaise te dit que t'as un joli cul, tu xtrouveras ça bizarre mais c'est juste un compliment d'objet direct.

"If some day a chair tells you you have a pretty ass, you'll find that weird but it's just a direct object compliment." It's a pun on "complément d'objet direct" (the object that is put directly after a transitive verb), intentionally being misspelled as "compliment d'objet direct" to mean that it's a direct compliment from an object.

> Mon pied droit est jaloux de mon pied gauche. Quand l'un avance, l'autre veut le dépasser. Et moi, comme un imbécile, je marche ! — Raymond Devos

"My right foot is jealous of my left foot. When one goes forward, the other wants to overtake it. And I, like an imbecile, I'm walking!

"Knock knock "Race condition\" "Who's there?

- Brilliant!

  In C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

> The best things in life are free. > Notepad++ is free. > So Notepad++ is the best.

I have never come accross a more valid argument. I, however, can't say the same about it's soundness XD

  # UNIX command line Russian roulette:[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf /* || echo *Click*

“A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.”

But… there is no any other way to cross a street… in Russia.

"Me: \"I'm 45 years old but I've got a 19 year-old young man's body\"\nHer: \"Show me\"\nI opened the freezer to show her the body.\nShe screamed.\nMe too.\n") }

nice

Elon should have talked to Bill Gates before firing half of Twitter: "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

"The best things in life are free.

Notepad++ is free.

So Notepad++ is the best.

"

Logically incorrect. Maybe that is the joke. Should be: "The best things in life are free. Notepad++ is free. Therefore if something is not free, it cannot be one of the best things, or notepad++"

That's great, and it's not all CS quotes. It reminds me of the quotes from the old UNIX fortune program [1] that many systems or accounts would be configured to use to show a quote on each login.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix) https://github.com/bmc/fortunes/blob/master/fortunes

> Should array index start at 0 or 1? My compromised solution is 0.5

i like this one, it puts a nice perspective on compromises.

“To iterate is human, to recurse divine.”

I can't believe that I just created a few lines of C driver to print out the messages:

Good programmers use Notepad++ to code. Extreme programmers use MS Word to code, in Comic Sans, center aligned.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

Emacs is a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor.

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

Life is too short to remove USB safely.

I would rather check my facebook than face my checkbook.

How do you generate a random string? A: Put a Windows user in front of vi, and tell him to exit.

...

(One of my favourites is an alien message missing here due to HN's filtering of non-letters.)

“Your mother is so fat, the recursive function computing her mass causes a stack overflow.”

An old favorite of mine is the exception message "God Damned Exception" [0]

I stumbled across it in 2007, the day after Windows Vista was released. I installed Windows Vista, and the first thing that I installed was Notepad++. Shortly thereafter, I got a popup "God Damned Exception", but it wasn't immediately clear what application was raising it. I thought it was humorous to entertain the possibility that Vista had been released with this oversight. But... notepad++ was the only thing installed that was not Vanilla out-of-the-box Vista, so I searched through the notepad++ source to find/confirm it. It's been a favorite of mine ever since.

[0] https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/...

Permalink: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/...

ROTFL. Enough for ten standup routines in there. "Take my Surface Pro 3, PLEASE!"

The only funny thing about that code is that someone took the time to type in hundreds of "funny" and "inspirational" quotes into the source code, gone to die in the depths of Notepad++.

Tip: Use "shift + scroll" to read long quotes.

Kind of niche and specific to X11, but one my favorite quotes is from jwz [1]:

"X is slow because of the separation of servers and clients, i.e., the client-server model, i.e., its network capacity. It doesn't matter that it uses shared segments in the degenerate case -- it still takes a dozen context-switches amongst three different processes before an X client can even pick its nose."

[1] https://slashdot.org/story/99/08/04/2242224/ask-slashdot-com...

What functionality in Notepad++ triggers showing one of these quotes?

Also related:

https://grantwinney.com/the-nsfw-quotes-of-notepad-plus-plus...

Heh heh heh ... {TEXT("Elon Musk"), QuoteParams::rapid, false, SC_CP_UTF8, L_TEXT, TEXT("Don't set your password as your child's name.\nName your child after your password."

The one before the last is ascii art (I hope the formatting doesn't get messed up, sorry if it does). EDIT : It actually does, so here is a screenshot instead : https://ibb.co/Kr67DHk

> “ If I'm the Father of Open Source, it was conceived through artificial insemination using stolen sperm without my knowledge or consent”

“You take the red pill an-“

“No thanks, Morpheus old pal! I’m off the meds for good! To Jupiter!!”

I kinda miss Notepad++. Or rather, I miss the OS having a unified look and feel, and Notepad++ being a great editor within the constraints of a unified look and feel.

If I'm ever using Notepad++ at work, I'm probably not doing noble work. That being said, it's one of the best tools for those type of jobs.

Isn´t it a very obvious thing to get the idea that the information of this site should not be hidden inside an ancient three-column design that resembles the antique NukeCMS (PHP)?

Why is the most important coder website build in a way that hides information so hard?

What purpose do the left and right column with empty space serve?

Once I used to install some user css to get 100% width for the content, but I got tired to do that.

How can such a design dinosaur survive for so long right in the center of "modern development tools"?

8272 lines of code in a single file.

I guess you could talk about coding standards and code smells all day, but let's not. I'm impressed.

Actually, this is a great idea. I also would like the idea to compile some quotes and puns into binaries.

made my day. some good old (and new) ones in there.

where do they pop out in the GUI?

and why the hell are there 7000+ lines in one file?

Would be interesting to see what GitHub Copilot makes of this.

>8k lines in a single file >mfw

Adding #L7102 to the URL gets you straight to the quotes:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/...

>"Je mange donc je chie."

Roughly : "I eat therefore I shit"

I never understood devs that do this, it reflects very poorly on them and it doesn't bring anything to the table. Way to show your immaturity.

I write code since 2006, 99% of it is private and is mostly read by me and I still don't do this.

I'm a Notepad++ user and I'm not a fan of some of these quotes. I wonder if someone has already made a cleaned up version of Notepad++. I would certainly be interested in that.