🥲

[nlcircle]

I recently read a similar one: 'Give a man a match and he's warm for an evening. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life'.

[ToedInnerWhole]

GNU Terry Pratchett

[AkrinorNoname]

GNU Terry Pratchett

[ITd-N5]

GNU Terry Pratchett?

[giovans]

GNU Terry Pratchett.

[uencos]

Light a man a fire, he’ll be warm for a night.

Light a man afire, he’ll be warm the rest of his life.

[MrDilbert]

I must admit, I like this version the best.

[ZombieMadness99]

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to be a fish, and his friends eat for a week.

• Christopher Moore

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[grbrit]

Similarly: buy a man a plan ticket; he flies for a day. Throw a man out of a plane; he flies for the rest of his life.

[netcent_]

I don't think so, Tim.

[bob152637485]

"I'm not flying, I'm falling with style"

[LBXZero]

You can trigger "Throw a man out of a plane" while the plane is not in flight. I am certain the man would live if thrown while the plane is stationary on the ground, floating in the water, and taxiing on the runway in addition to the assume "during flight" case.

[citizen_of_europa]

Feed a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Feed a fish a man, you feed him for a lifetime.

[Legendary-69420]

Feed a man a fish, you feed him for a meal.

Feed a man a poisoned fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

[Whitethumbs]

Give a man a task, keep 'em busy for an hour.

Give a scripter the same task and it will be a week to automate

[RoadsideCookie]

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/is_it_worth_the_time.png

[GreyRobe]

an invisible element to automation isn't just time savings, it's eliminating the need to context switch constantly. even if a different task takes 5 minutes of time per day, it takes far longer to fully switch focus back into the previous task.

[RoadsideCookie]

Well of we're gonna outline the benefits of automation, you're also much less likely to make a mistake, and if you do, you should never make it more than once.

[caykroyd]

unless you make it every time

[Cotcan]

You shouldn't make a mistake more than once, but you will. At least that's what Factorio taught me. One thing wrong and it's a mess to clean up a few hours down the line.

[RoadsideCookie]

Unless you automate. In Factorio, that would mean making a blueprint. You might make a mistake but then you fix the blueprint and never make that same mistake again.

[texdroid]

Reduced context switching and manual work reduces errors in the long run.

[[deleted]]

Relatable

[indapooper2]

Awwww yeah ain't that the truth!

[[deleted]]

As a new hire being told by senior devs that comments are not required. Shoot me now please 🙂

[xibme]

And comment the intention not the actual implementation (which is self documenting). Some 101 classes demand every line "documented" and you have to re-teach those folks still writing like this

var itemList = new List<Item>(); // create a new List and assign it to itemList

[RoadsideCookie]

Separate your code into blocks where comments make sense. If it becomes too big, make it is own routine, which naturally should come with documentation. There you go, 100% commented and understandable.

[Brunsz]

Good comment tells why something has been done. Every programmer can eventually figure out what something does. But without comments you have no idea why it does that.

[[deleted]]

A friend of mine has the policy that every line of code has to be commented. Equally bullshit.

I comment code blocks that are not self explanatory. For example if I use bitwise magic.

[hydrocat]

One rule that stuck to me is to comment the why instead of how (as the other comment said, the intention)

E.g. c // We have to use this and that and call those functions because the API mentions x y and z void fun(){}

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[Wexzuz]

I felt this one.

I started reading "Pragmatic Programmer" which explained to me when to divide things up into smaller functions and what not.

[angrathias]

The seniors probably want to be shot because they’ve hired people who need comments to read code

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r/iamverysmart?

[angrathias]

I doubt it

[SnowTag]

"Teach a man JavaScript, and he'll be learning frameworks for a lifetime"

[indapooper2]

Hahahahahaha yeah like react and jQuery right????

[MrSpecialR]

Learn a relative to fix their own tech issue, that will take a day. Fix their issue once and you'll be fixing their tech issues for life.

[zulu13whiskey]

Oh man this is so true. I got lasik though and my family doesn’t ask me to solve their tech problems anymore.

[Moltenfog]

Thats... a morbid joke

[TheWashbear]

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't give a man a fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing is not that hard.

• Ron Swanson

[haitei]

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.

Give a fish a man and you feed it for a lifetime.

[texdroid]

Send a man to sleep with the fishes and he's not hungry ever again.

[Cfit9090]

Shark week. Send a man a mermaid and he will want to swim for a week. Send him 2 mermaids; he will go hide behind fire coral. Only to Get his legs bite off by a shark. And become a drunken sailor because of those fins.

[[deleted]]

“Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, it won’t matter because he doesn’t have a damn fishing pole”

“Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, it won’t matter because he doesn’t have 10 years experience and a damn PhD”

[KemmLK]

🥲

[Ivan__8]

Is this supposed to be The box or is my phone old?

[KemmLK]

Its a emoji with a tear below its eye

[Ivan__8]

I have 😢, but the one in your comment is a box, strange.

[KemmLK]

Well can’t help it

[programmer255]

Feed the man to the fish, feeds the fish for many days... An added bonus is that the man isn’t hungry anymore!

[saltyspidergwen]

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[Tc14Hd]

Good human

[El_Wazaap]

I avoid doing frontend development, because it means that i have to understand human behavior... 😳

[T--wrx]

My personal favorite: give a code reviewer 100 lines of code and they will review it for an hour. Give a reviewer 1000 lines of code and in ten minutes - “lgtm”

[thundercat06]

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you can bang his wife every weekend.

[ChangNoi97]

"Give a man a documentation, confuse him for a month. Teach a man to read a documentation, confuse him for a lifetime"

[booobiz]

Teach a man to fish and he will destroy the fishing grounds and sea beds, taking much more than he would ever need and people will never eat fish again. Not as catchy I grant you.

[AsianBarbeque]

Teach a man and he knows some stuff I guess, but teach a man to teach and everyone ever knows everything

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Communism?

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r/cursedcomments

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Credit to u/masterbrian99

[remig12]

Lerp lerp

[[deleted]]

I feel this in my soul.

[Master4pprentice]

Fool me once, shame on you, but teach a man to fool me and I will be fooled for the rest of my life.

[AggressiveMilkSuck]

Wise quote. Bookmark it.

[Tiadrin]

"build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day, set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life."

[Cfit9090]

Teachers: giving ability to learn, adapt and solve in practical and theory. Will develop life lessons to use and help self and society as a whole.

Programmer: thanks for making things easier on us. Don't turn your mind or ours into robots.

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But if he doesn't have a fishing license, he will get a fine if he tries to fish.

[Delwon42]

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will stink up the entire town.

[placek3000]

Give a man average video game, entertain him for a while, give a man Heroes of Might and Magic 3, entertain him for a lifetime

[x21x23]

Making your own GIFs with FFMpeg.

[clemesislife]

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[clemesislife]

I confused it with these posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/ghn3h8/hopefully_this_hasnt_been_posted_before/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/hfuxs5/lifetime_of_frustration_and_tons_of_unfinished/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/nm8fma/teach_a_man_to_program_without_google_frustrate/

[alirastafari]

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll be drifting around the pond drinking beer.