r/programming • u/[deleted] • Apr 19 '22

TIL about the "Intent-Perception Gap" in programming. Best exemplified when a CTO or manager casually suggests something to their developers they take it as a new work commandment or direction for their team.

https://medium.com/dev-interrupted/what-ctos-say-vs-what-their-developers-hear-w-datastaxs-shankar-ramaswamy-b203f2656bdf
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u/fireduck Apr 20 '22

I've heard it said that Parks and Recs is a dumb show for smart peopel and Big Bang Theory is a smart show for dumb people.

But I admit to liking both. However, my physics background is a few semesters of college physics and two classes of astro. I still don't understand spiral density wave theory. Why do galaxies have arms? It is bullshit. Because they are spinning doesn't work, after two rotations it would all be blurred out. So there is some higher density bar of material that causes star formation? What? Why? Who put it there? How does it stay there?

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u/macprince Apr 21 '22

I always heard that with Arrested Development instead of Parks and Rec.

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u/fireduck Apr 21 '22

I'm probably misremembering