Here’s a (very old) joke I like to tell on tech forums sometimes; it nicely encapsulates how they communicate. Most people get it, but there’s always a few who don’t think it’s funny:
A programer’s wife asks him to do some shopping: “Please buy a loaf of bread, and if they have eggs, buy a dozen.”
He comes back with 12 loaves of bread.
The wife asks: “Why on earth would you get 12 loaves of bread?”
“They had eggs.”
As a programmer working support. I often ask users for clarification on how they expect things to work, and they often make me imagine a dog going “no take only throw” by saying ‘i don’t know just fix it.’
Early on in my career I’ve wasted time on projects implementing the wrong thing a few times so ever since I clarify to a fault even if it doesn’t sound weird. If something can be interpreted multiple ways I always ask for clarification even if one interpretation is “more popular”. I’d rather spend 5 minutes asking for clarification than waste a week of everyone’s time.
Since then I don’t think I’ve ever implemented something “wrong”. There might be miscommunications in other parts of the communication chain but never with me.
Thing with this joke that his me wrong is that isn’t how if statements are written. The else does not come before the condition in any language I’ve ever used or seen.
At the very least. It should be that he comes back with 1 or 13 loaves.
As an Autist, this is not funny. I mean, it is… But on closer analysis it shows what layers of meaning are between the lines and background that is required to participate socially.
It’s only logical, it’s only intuitive, they say… Heh
Here’s a (very old) joke I like to tell on tech forums sometimes; it nicely encapsulates how they communicate. Most people get it, but there’s always a few who don’t think it’s funny:
All of the worst programmers I have worked with do that exact thing and refuse to acknowledge that they might have misunderstood what was said.
The good ones ask for clarification when something sounds weird.
As a programmer working support. I often ask users for clarification on how they expect things to work, and they often make me imagine a dog going “no take only throw” by saying ‘i don’t know just fix it.’
Yeah, those people are annoying too.
Early on in my career I’ve wasted time on projects implementing the wrong thing a few times so ever since I clarify to a fault even if it doesn’t sound weird. If something can be interpreted multiple ways I always ask for clarification even if one interpretation is “more popular”. I’d rather spend 5 minutes asking for clarification than waste a week of everyone’s time.
Since then I don’t think I’ve ever implemented something “wrong”. There might be miscommunications in other parts of the communication chain but never with me.
Ugh.
Listen here, you little shits. I hired you because I don’t need robots. I can build robots, for crying out loud.
it makes sense though
Thing with this joke that his me wrong is that isn’t how if statements are written. The else does not come before the condition in any language I’ve ever used or seen.
At the very least. It should be that he comes back with 1 or 13 loaves.
Thanks for proving my point 😉
No, she said “and if,” so that should be
loaves += 12, so he should have returned with 13 loaves.I see that as requiring an instruction of replacement, like buy a dozen instead.
im gonna do whats called a pro gramer move
As an Autist, this is not funny. I mean, it is… But on closer analysis it shows what layers of meaning are between the lines and background that is required to participate socially.
It’s only logical, it’s only intuitive, they say… Heh
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