Microblog Memes

9953 readers

1963 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

ReadyUser31@lemmy.world

aeronmelon@lemmy.world

needanke@feddit.org

761

hardest problem (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 day ago by io@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

58 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly/115774597887116308

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

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 92 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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."

[–] Luxyr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

Buy a loaf

If they have eggs

Buy a dozen loaves

[–] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

loaves = 1
if (eggs)
  loaves = 12

[–] Luxyr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

I see that as requiring an instruction of replacement, like buy a dozen instead.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Thanks for proving my point 😉

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.'

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 13 points 1 day ago

Yeah, those people are annoying too.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Ugh.

Listen here, you little shits. I hired you because I don't need robots. I can build robots, for crying out loud.

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

im gonna do whats called a pro gramer move

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago

Error: Couldn't match type 'Int' with 'Item'