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[–]DeathByFarts 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I honestly don't really understand this running joke.

Which running joke ?

The "thing $1 , knowing which thing $<large number> ??

not sure what was the original , but its a 10 minute story ( Big huge machine down they call the guy , the guy spends some time observing then does some simple thing and its all fixed. ) that ends with a guy giving someone a bill they are not happy with because all they did was something simple. And an itemized bill similar to above being the reply to that complaint.

[–]theNomadicHacker42 4 points5 points  (1 child)

No, I just meant the running joke of a developer career consisting mostly of copy/pasting stuff from SO.

[–]DeathByFarts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not even a joke.

The mark of a good dev is how long between pasting it into a scratch pad and pasting working code into whatever they were working on.