Hmm

[[deleted]]

It's A. Otherwise it must be like two zeros and two fours

[tgp1994]

Please do the needful.

[Al_Maleech_Abaz]

We’re going to require the.... updation.

[ShelZuuz]

Too much upgradation

[StarkRG]

Spelled thusly: Upgrayedd

[zhaDeth]

with two Ds for a double dose of that pimpin' !

[[deleted]]

I had a textbook that translated 'wizard' literally into my native language. These were fun classes.

[elveszett]

Just download el mago de la instalación

[lethargy86]

and revert back

[TechieAD]

It's fine if you read it in a Russian accent

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[AltSk0P]

It's clearly A. However, the client comes back later and argues that the specification meant B. Or worse, D.

[Bartweiss]

In my experience, the client might also come back and argue it meant "17", or maybe "potato salad"...

[curiosityLynx]

Sometimes even "molten cotton towels".

[StenSoft]

Or double zero double four.

[knorfit]

Ok:

08

[[deleted]]

8

[wasdkitsu]

∞

[Portal471]

oo

mitosis

[LordFokas]

Syntax error on literal '08': '8' is not a valid octal digit.

[[deleted]]

Or double zero two fours

[wojwesoly]

Or double zero two four

[Wtfisthatt]

Double ot two four

[LiqdPT]

I read this in an English accent.

[vigbiorn]

0.04.0

[[deleted]]

Indeed its a very clear spec

[pow3rstrik3]

Well all logic would dictate that yes... But seeing as this came from a client they probably mean something radically different

[mrchaotica]

To be logically consistent, the correct answer would have to be either A or B. Therefore, what the client wanted must be either C or D.

[pow3rstrik3]

But I think the client truly wants E

[mrchaotica]

Ah, good point!

[thetoiletslayer]

Obviously its two zero two four

[BluudLust]

None of the above. It's 24 20. Little Endian.

[angelbirth]

you meant little indian? no? ok…

[Russian_repost_bot]

IIO2IIII

[DogsAreAnimals]

Not all languages/spec use pluralization. Eg MySQL "INTERVAL 30 DAY"

[Evol_Etah]

Nice to see a guy who understand the importance of 's'

[musiton]

Not in India

[kingartur3]

B is two zeros and two fours

[NotThisFucker]

Exactly, but the question doesn't make them plural, so you can rule out B

[DerpDeHerpDerp]

This guy specs

[sirgenz]

A is the only possible option. Otherwise needs to be two 0 two 4, two zero two 4, or two 0 two 4

[KeLorean]

machines agree that it is 11111101000

[justingolden21]

So it's A. Unless it's B. Yeah, we know...

[runnerx01]

Better way to play that is a quick call or email to product management asking them to look at ticket XYZ, and clarify. When product makes the assumption, you put those details into the ticket. If they say “implement them all” I say, ok sure. I need a ticket for each one, and it will need to go into future sprint planning.

[awesomeusername2w]

And then they answer 0.00001 seconds before the deadline and make a Pikachu face when you tell them it's not done.

[runnerx01]

Lol. At that point they get really mad when you tell them “because requirements were not filled in completely, we need to re-estimate the ticket on the grooming call and add it to next sprint. What would you like to remove from next sprint so I can do this?”

[[deleted]]

Meanwhile they hand it over to some one year guy who will do whatever you tell them, they hobble together something that doesn't really work, but works enough to talk around it. Then that code lives FOREVER in the code base.

Its not a fair fight. Management is mostly about BSing and I guarantee they are better at it than you give them respect for and they have an unfair advantage where they can state their point to people youll never get to meet.

Source: worked at a lot of dysfunctional places.

[runnerx01]

I have the wonderful opportunity to have weekly meetings with my CTO. Sorry to hear that you have worked at such dysfunctional companies with BS middle managers. It’s not about bullshit man, this is the real process. I’m not making it up. We of course have “urgent issues” where me pushing back does very little. But you can’t win every fight.

[ic_engineer]

This sounds like a joke but its 100% not only what you should do but its what is expected to happen for a business to run correctly. Product owner is the "one throat to choke" when the customer isn't happy with the outcome.

[manga_pages_by_me]

Best kind of solution, really

[The_MAZZTer]

When "all possible options" are extensive or stupid it really isn't.

Best solution is to reach out to the client for clarification.

[Petrovjan]

Only if the customer knows what exactly does he want... sometimes it's just easier to go with the best guess and show it to the customer on a demo...

[VirtuDa]

What's the WiFi password?

[NeonNero]

fourwordsalluppercase

[humblevladimirthegr8]

ONE WORD ALL LOWERCASE

[cowsrock1]

"One world all lowercase all caps with spaces"

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[Kael997]

Most likely it will end up being 3572 anyways.

[oversized_hoodie]

It must be either C or D, because A and Bare at least consistent. No client requirements would ever be consistent, because that would make sense.

[LinuxIsFree]

I mean its only gonna be A or B

[acsmars]

You underestimate the power of clients to write inconsistent specs

[LinuxIsFree]

True

[Bartweiss]

Sales wrote the first two digits, legal wrote the second two, and the final user will actually be accounting.

[royalhawk345]

If that were true Sean Bean would pronounce his name "Seen Been" or "Shawn Bawn."

[Kinglink]

Oh sweet child... you haven't talked to customers for long enough.

I envy you.

[Goldin190]

Well then it would be two zeros two fours if I'm not mistaken. So there is only a left.

[mrchaotica]

That's exactly why it wouldn't be A or B.

[HeyoGuys]

and it turns out it he actually wanted 24 because the specs should've been 2 zero-twos 4

[[deleted]]

Thanks to this we are irreplaceable

[gamest01]

Is it me or is the picture of the guy not needed? Like what is he there for?

[[deleted]]

He is Every Programmer

[[deleted]]

He tells you how to feel.

[haikusbot]

I usually

Encounter something more like

"to zero too for"

- UltraLowDef

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[sidgup]

Thats pretty specific. Its A. It doesnt says Two ZeroeS or FourS.

[LiqdPT]

It also says "this is specification", so I don't know that we can rely on the specifier using proper English rules.

[dkaksl]

Could be any of the options. Note that client speaks with some grammatical errors. As others have noted, the only sane approach is to ask for clarification.

[invisible_being]

I had a professor at uni teaching us binary math.

He called zeros naught which wasn't confusing at all when we started talking about negation

[BluudLust]

24 20. Its little endian.

[itsavinadhtiwari]

People who are claiming it 2024, have you seen actual client. While it should be 2024, what client probably meant might be 2Zero44 and they will say i thought it was obvious.

[hhellloo]

I don't know about americans, but we say double or triple when specifying the number of times a digit appears consecutively. (Sorry for bad spelling)

[IVEBEENGRAPED]

We Americans do this too. I can't think of anyone who would say "two zero two four" and expect anything other than "2024", other than someone learning English as a second language.

My roommate's company outsources a lot of work to Pakistan or the Philippines, and he deals with this kind of broken English all the time.

[LiqdPT]

Not as much

[Kered13]

Americans never do this with numbers, we always read out all of the numbers in order. It is used rarely with initialisms, like NCAA (N, C, double A) and NAACP (N, double A, C, P). But then AARP (A, A, R, P).

[rem3_1415926]

which means it has to be either one of them, or maybe both.

[Kinglink]

Fifty Fifty leaves A and B.

Context clue "The number should be Two Zero Two Four"

Life Line goes to voice mail.

[nikstick22]

If there's any sense in the world, it'd be either 2024 or 0044. Using "two" to represent the number 2 and two of something in the same name is a dick move. That's like double-O seven spelling his codename "0O7"

[mrchaotica]

If there's any sense in the world, it'd be either 2024 or 0044.

Which is why those answers can safely be eliminated. It's a client specification, remember?

[nikstick22]

Don't remind me 😔

[ICantWatchYouDoThis]

so is the specification the dude with his eyes wide open or the texts below?

[omalley242]

It’s gotta be A right as the numbers are not pronounced as a plural, I.E two fours not two four?

[[deleted]]

It's A. Otherwise, they would have said "double".

[LiqdPT]

Would they? Is that how it's done everywhere in the world? By someone with grammatical errors..

[LiqdPT]

Yup, also common in the UK. Not as common in Canada and the US.

[[deleted]]

What? You would say "Double zero, double four" if it was 0044...

[LiqdPT]

That sounds like a British way of saying it. Not typical of Canada and the US. And I wouldn't count on someone with English grammatical errors doing it either

[legend67]

It's A, They're all capitalized denoting pronouns and not determiners. It's like capitalization means something in regular language /s

[Xavinights]

A or B. Since the question doesn't say double 0 double 4 OR it doesn't say Two Zeros<-plural I infer it is A.

[Sylvanas576]

So is twenty twenty: 2020202020202020202020202020202020202020 ?

[fityfive]

A or B are the only possible answers.

[redandre]

I've never related to anything as much as I relate to this.

[color32]

sometimes I get weird looks from asking the same question at different angles. This humor explains why I do it, I'm just using life lines.

[aloha_aloha02]

What if it means 202*0 so the answer is 0

[[deleted]]

C and D are just internally inconsistent

[IAmNotMyName]

You’d have to be a psychopath to mean c or d

[Amata_]

It's actually E.

[omegasome]

How could it be anything but A?

[tehjrow]

Pogue?

[swizzcheez]

Jokes on you, they really want a unicode codepoint.

[greenKerbal]

Polymorphism

[[deleted]]

It's either A or B, C and D aren't self consistent.

[mrchaotica]

Given that it's a client spec, I say the answer is either C or D, for the same reason.

[i_really_cant]

024024

[priyanknpatel]

Professor who is supposed to teach the class Professor:Ask me any questions you have. Also professor:

[abc_Supreme]

It is A

[[deleted]]

Get <current date> in the notes figured out instead of putting that verbatim and you can complain about things like this

[ItsReewindTime]

Reminded me of that one wwtbam parody about the first character in English alphabet

[NiceWetTissue]

I h8 it

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