this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2026
413 points (89.8% liked)
Programmer Humor
31092 readers
703 users here now
Welcome to Programmer Humor!
This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!
For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.
Rules
- Keep content in english
- No advertisements
- Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
https://xkcd.com/303/ vs this guy who thinks 20 seconds is a long time
I've done professional work on an old Unix system where the full build was more than 2 hours, and an incremental stop-rebuild-restart cycle was 20 minutes.
You get to where you really stare at your edits for a while before you hit build.
"This could take like a hundred milliseconds. It could even take gasp ONE WHOLE SECOND! 😱"