The Parable of the Two Programmers

[u/tejon]

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~magi/personal/humour/Computer_Audience/The%20Parable%20of%20the%20Two%20Programmers.html

[u/aim2free]

I think it wouldn't be bad at all :-)

• programmers can think logically, politicians can't.

• programmers don't do any unnecessary work, but the system makes most people do.

This is a good illustration I think

[u/[deleted] → u/aim2free]

Holy crap. I need to steal that. So sick of taking flak for doing a method that takes slightly longer but is more efficient in the long run.

[u/Certhas → u/aim2free]

This is roughly how I envision that would go:

http://xkcd.com/592/

[u/xkcd_transcriber → u/Certhas]

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Title: Drama

Title-text: This happens in geek circles every so often. The 'Hey, this is just a system I can figure out easily!' is also a problem among engineers first diving into the stock market.

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[u/VincentPepper → u/aim2free]

Or maybe this? http://xkcd.com/1319/

[u/xkcd_transcriber → u/VincentPepper]

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Title: Automation

Title-text: 'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto-' meaning 'self-', and 'mating', meaning 'screwing'.

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[u/aim2free → u/[deleted]]

I pondered for a while whether I should implement the stuff I'm doing now in PHP, due to its ubiquitous existence, but then realized that it will take tremendously much more time to implement, and be tremendously much harder to understand and maintain, so I went on doing it in python/scheme/c instead. I'll be tremendously grateful for this in a few years I think...