CZNP - Top 10 comments on Stack Overflow

Top 10 comments on Stack Overflow

Posted on 12.10.2009 10:42 am

Joel Coehoorn just released the October version of stackql.net and I thought to celebrate that I'd post the Top 10 most voted comments on stackoverflow.com

Update: Here's the query that fetches the comments.

SELECT TOP 10 * FROM Comments ORDER BY Score DESC

Number 10.

Background: Guy posts about having a resume that makes him look like he knows how to program. But says he cant.

Comment: 179 Votes. +1 for brutal honesty, even though you may be selling yourself short. How about testing, writing documentation, writing specs, evaluating tools, etc? – n8wrl

Number 9.

Background: Answer to the "Most controversial programmer opinion." Where someone answers "Most comments in code are in fact a pernicious form of code duplication."

Comment: 184 Votes. The code should tell you how...the comments should tell you why... – Richard E

Number 8.

Background: A comment to the old "Jon Skeet Facts". This question has been migrated to meta and the comment has gotten more upvotes there. But as it stands it's the 8th most upvoted comment on SO.

Comment: 189 Votes. Who the hell is Jon Skeet? – thenduks

Number 7.

Background: A comment to the classic "Jesus Saves" joke.

Comment: 214 Votes. Jesus saves, but only Buddha makes incremental backups – MrZebra

Number 6.

Background: The question is about the worst interviewee answer. The answer is when someone is doing a phone interview and they hear them typing and the Internet Explorer sound when they get a result.

Comment: 217 Votes. I agree with you 100%: Never hire anyone who uses IE! – erickson

Number 5.

Background: A comment to the question "What is your favorite programmer cartoon". Where in the question, someone posted the classic Foxtrot cartoon where he gets away with writing something a 500 times by doing a C loop.

Comment: 218 Votes. It's unfortunate that it prints it out without line breaks. – PintSizedCat

Number 4.

Background: A comment to another answer to the question above. Where the answer is "Knock, knock." "Who’s there?" very long pause…. "Java."

Comment: 268 Votes. Upvote to counter-act your lack of a sense of humor. :) – GMan

Number 3.

Background: An answer where someone figures out why a strange number pattern appears by turning it into hex.

Comment: 284 Votes. if this is true, you just won a prize for "best debug of the year" :) – Stefano Borini

Number 2.

Background: Another comment to an answer to the best programmer joke question. This time the answer is "An SQL query goes into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks, "Can I join you?""

Comment: 293 Votes. That one's so stupid it underflows and becomes awesome – Mike Akers

Number 1.

Background: And again from the best programmer joke question. This time the answer is. "so this programmer goes out on a date with a hot chick". Where two other users take offense and state that they go out on a date with hot chicks all the time.

Comment: 306 Votes. Click-upvote and Josh, good for you. I'm impressed that you found girls that were both hot and liked programmers with no sense of humor. – Kevin

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