this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025

393 points (97.1% liked)

Programmer Humor

27301 readers

2347 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

Feyter@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

393

Clock, but its ORDER BY Hour DESC (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

38 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The German one?

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Hollerith was American-born to German immigrants. The census in question was also the 1890 US census.

It's a cool story. With the rise in population, the 1890 census was not predicted to be completed before they had to start the 1900 census. With Hollerith's machine, it was instead done in record time.