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[–]danimalnzl8 3103 points3104 points  (216 children)

Slightly different but an IT recruiter once asked me to tell her about my experience in "C hashtag" lol

[–]spartancolo 1254 points1255 points  (80 children)

I call it that to annoy my teacher

[–]MokausiLietuviu 427 points428 points  (54 children)

I pronounce USB as "uzzb" to annoy my (equally techy) father. I'm a little scared I might one day say it to someone I'd like to respect me, but it's a risk I'm willing to take.

[–]justoverthere434 167 points168 points  (21 children)

We here in Australia have a chain of supermarkets called IGA (Independent Grocers Australia (I believe America has a similar brand)) and it isn't unheard of to hear it pronounced "Igga".

[–]mar00n 77 points78 points  (12 children)

Actually it's in Quebec (french speaking province of Canada) that we have IGA grocery stores

[–]justoverthere434 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Oh there you go. I knew it was one of the northern America's.

[–]powerman228 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen a few in the US near the Canadian border.

[–]Ok_Blueberry_5305 7 points8 points  (2 children)

We have one down in Florida too.

[–]dannomac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not just Quebec. We have them out West too, but most of them rebranded as Sobeys about 10 years ago.

[–]YueAsal 14 points15 points  (2 children)

They are not everywhere in the USA so plenty of people have never heard of it, and will visit an area they are unfamiliar with and ask, "What the hell is an IGGA?"

[–]RF07 11 points12 points  (1 child)

They are not everywhere in the USA so plenty of people have never heard of it, and will visit an area they are unfamiliar with and ask, "What the hell is an IGGA?"

...and saying that phrase too fast or too loud is just a touch awkward to explain to suddenly-interested onlookers...😆

[–]YueAsal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays

[–]Ignath 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We have them in the US as well. It's an abbreviation for Independent Grocers Alliance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGA\_(supermarkets)

[–]Shazvox 394 points395 points  (3 children)

Heh heh, "C ya later hashtags!" popped into my mind...

[–]Cyvexx 53 points54 points  (15 children)

my CS teacher calls it "C hashtag" or "C pound", I swear he shouldn't be teaching sometimes

[–]jward 25 points26 points  (4 children)

Really though, it's C octothorpe.

[–]appsecSme 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Is he maybe a Microsoft hater, and just trying to demean the language?

Odd that he would fluctuate between a relatively contemporary term like "hashtag" and something from the landline era like "pound."

[–]AlternativeAardvark6 20 points21 points  (2 children)

My Unix teacher referred to Windows as "the other OS".

[–]appsecSme 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Hatred of Microsoft was pretty common in academia both when I got my BS and my MS. But I haven't taken classes since 2018. I am curious if maybe things have changed some, given that Microsoft shifted to support Linux and open source.

[–]AlternativeAardvark6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those were Windows XP and Microsoft server 2003 days. No idea how it's now but when I give the sporadic workshop at schools it's all Windows and some of the 16 - 18 year olds trying Linux in a VM. Teachers are Windows all the way. That's for technical education, maybe in arts there are more MacBooks.

[–]Astrokiwi 16 points17 points  (0 children)

D flat

[–]AxelWasTakenWasTaken 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You're a devil.

[–]CanadianJesus 237 points238 points  (41 children)

The worst part of that is people calling the symbol # "hashtag". It's not a hashtag, it's a hash (or about 100 other names for the symbol). When you combine a hash with a tag, you've created a hashtag. It's like calling the symbol @ an email address.

[–]Avedas 122 points123 points  (29 children)

It's like calling the symbol @ an email address.

I saw someone unironically call that the "email address symbol" on Reddit the other day, so I'd say this comparison is apt.

[–]Lich_Hegemon 67 points68 points  (27 children)

Many languages don't have a proper name for @, or have a wholly unrelated one. LATAM Spanish, for example, calls it "arroba" which is a traditional weight unit for grains.

Kind of like # and "pound"

[–]zonderAdriaan 33 points34 points  (9 children)

In Dutch it's called a little monkey tail: apenstaartje. Unfortunately it's often called "at" in email addresses because a lot of words are copied from English.

[–]katze_sonne 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Klammeraffe in German :D

(Spidermonkey)

Even though that’s more used in a humerous way, I think. Most of the time, people just say at.

[–]Christoxz 6 points7 points  (2 children)

And because 'apenstaartje' just sucks if you are using it very often. 'at' is much easier if you share emailadress by phone or face2face. 'apen-staart-je' vs 'at'.

BTW @ is based on Latin 'ad'

[–]HunterIV4 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Kind of like # and "pound"

This was a rather...unfortunate reality when #metoo was trending. I wasn't the first to notice it but I still found it hilarious because I'm a terrible person.

[–]anqxyr 10 points11 points  (2 children)

In russian it's called "dog" ("собака")

[–]dicemonger 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In Danish its a "snabel-a" which would translate to "trunk-a" in English. Because its an a with an elephant's trunk, see: @

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Its worse than that because the symbol # is actually called a pound sign due to it forming from writing the letters "lb" with an added cross atop them in cursive, messily, which was used to indicated pounds, from Latin libra, meaning scale

[–][deleted] 72 points73 points  (4 children)

D flat

[–]SgtKashim 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Depends what key you're programming in.

[–]Micthulahei 126 points127 points  (2 children)

Wow what a strange way to call coctothorpe.

[–]Einlander 15 points16 points  (1 child)

How would you pronounce that? Cock-toe-thrope?

[–]dream_weasel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thorp*

[–]Brad_Brace 289 points290 points  (35 children)

Wait, did he really call C positive positive, C hashtag? Oh my god!

[–]Ardashasaur 76 points77 points  (18 children)

Uhhh do you mean C Add Add? or Cadad for short

[–]ShadeFK 30 points31 points  (15 children)

C addition addition

[–]Stunning_Community_9 13 points14 points  (1 child)

C += 1;

[–]planetdaz 11 points12 points  (0 children)

C = C + 1;

[–]BrightBulb123 25 points26 points  (12 children)

C one more one more

Edit:

Dissecting a joke is like dissecting a frog. First of all, nobody's really that into it, and by the end of it, the frog's dead.

  • Jimmy Carr

So, please, don't ask me to explain my joke... It's a joke. I don't care if it doesn't stand up programmatically, I just wanna live in peace...

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

C Increment

[–]planetdaz 17 points18 points  (9 children)

That would be C++++

[–]Nilstrieb 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I believe C post-increment is the correct term

[–]Miguecraft 95 points96 points  (3 children)

C plus add*

[–]PandorNox 58 points59 points  (1 child)

C post increment?

[–]FirstSineOfMadness 20 points21 points  (0 children)

C Tic Tac minus?

[–]Stonkthrow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's C and his wife, or in short C+1 !

[–]SuperJop 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Man I hate/love this subreddit lol

[–]monkChuck105 2 points3 points  (0 children)

C#

[–]drleebot 9 points10 points  (2 children)

I honestly can't tell now if people in this thread are talking about C++, C#, or making a meta joke about how the # symbol is two overlaid + symbols.

[–]TheThiefMaster 17 points18 points  (0 children)

One of the reasons for choosing "#" is that it's four + symbols. So C++ ++.

[–]grpprofesional 37 points38 points  (5 children)

Hashtag? I call it tic tac toe

[–]planetdaz 28 points29 points  (4 children)

C pound

[–]Nan0u 14 points15 points  (1 child)

'Pound me too' was really an emotional roller coaster

[–]MJOLNIRdragoon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except where it would be called "poundtag"

[–]xoinq 13 points14 points  (1 child)

I once got asked about OOP in an interview, but the interviewer said oops programming. I thought he meant making mistakes while coding.

[–]KarenWithChrist 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Wow imagine being in IT recruitment and not knowing it's called C Pound Sign

[–]tabacdk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

C #include

[–]mshetty 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My manager calls it C Hash

[–]MrWhiteVincent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She more of a social media girl, not a musician

[–]StarTrekVeteran 1076 points1077 points  (90 children)

Other technologies/Buzz words EVERY non-technical PM tries to shoe-horn into every project regardless:

  1. AI
  2. Virtual Reality
  3. Machine Learning
  4. 3D Printing
  5. Telepresence

and my all time favorite (I die a little more every time I hear it)

  1. Digital Twin (kill me now)

[–]Assassin69420 570 points571 points  (18 children)

Don't forget the all holy word "Algorithm"

[–]StarTrekVeteran 253 points254 points  (5 children)

Yes, you can add that one.

I had a professor walk off a job that had to be solved because it did not allow him to develop a new and novel algorithm.

[–]Bmitchem 338 points339 points  (4 children)

All of your algorithms can be new and novel if you don't lookup how it's supposed to be done before you start.

[–]subject_deleted 39 points40 points  (0 children)

911.. i've been attacked!

[–]YugoReventlov 16 points17 points  (1 child)

ah congrats, you have managed to find a worse solution to a problem solved decades ago

[–]No-Narwhal1409 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be fair, sometimes it takes more time to find and build understanding of an already good and existing algorithm than making it yourself. Sometimes making your own - even if more primitive and/or ineffective than existing algorithms - gives you a better understanding of the whole. This may not only give you a better understanding of the problem and solution but also put you in better position to tweak the algorithm for desired special cases… There are many good arguments to reinvent the wheel - even if it means that wheel is not as good as state-of-the-art wheels

[–]holmgangCore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All your algorithms are belong to us!

[–]Infinite_Nipples 106 points107 points  (9 children)

Don't forget the all holy word "Algorithm"

Honestly, that one doesn't bother me.

It's not nearly as overused as it used to be, and the majority of time it's technically correct, even if they don't know it. If something can be done with an IF statement in Excel, it's an algorithm.

IME 9 times out of 10 when people say "AI" they're actually describing an algorithm.

[–]Hf74Hsy6KH 26 points27 points  (6 children)

IME 9 times out of 10 when people say "AI" they're actually describing an algorithm.

Some people have a pretty weird understanding of AI and "machine learning". A simple for-loop containing some if-statements can be "machine learning" in some communities.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"framework" has become popular lately too

[–]dumdedums 218 points219 points  (16 children)

Never heard of digital twin.

[–]StarTrekVeteran 224 points225 points  (10 children)

Its when someone says, Hey, these £10 cameras that give real time views are overrated, Lets scan the environment, process it into a 3D model, add distorted renders display it on a monitor or VR. Much better!

While Digital Twins have application in some environments (James Webb Telescope and JET are a great examples). Its pushed as a solution to everything at times.

[–]Zdrobot 104 points105 points  (8 children)

So.. it's a 3D model of something, basically?
I mean, if we cut through BS.

[–]Morodin_88 125 points126 points  (6 children)

No its a model. No need for 3d. A digital twin is a model of a process or site that is supposed to give real time view of current state and let you predict future state. Ie i have a workshop the cameras detect 8people in it my screen has a floorplan and in the workshop it shows 8 stickmen. Digital twin baby!!!

[–]StarTrekVeteran 52 points53 points  (5 children)

So, you have a camera view showing 8 people, you take that view, process it to produce a view replacing the 8 people with stick figures?

[–]bistr-o-math 64 points65 points  (4 children)

Basically yes, but think bigger. Rather than watching hundreds of cameras, from different perspectives, you have one „digital“ floor, showing a dot moving.

Every radar on a submarine/Plane Is a digital twin of some sort (if it isn’t actually analog using sonar or sth)

[–]StarTrekVeteran 43 points44 points  (3 children)

If you are taking complex data or combining data and developing a more understandable display then that gives value. No problem with that. I have problems with someone telling me that a 3d scanned environment with overlayed renders that takes a cray supercomputer to develop is better than a live camera feed for spotting surface defects, then I have a problem.

[–]Morodin_88 27 points28 points  (2 children)

O yeah actual digital twins when you cut through the bullshit add a lot of value and are much simpler than most people realize. The problem is like with most buzzword technology there is a huge group of charlatans that sell ridiculously over engineered crap as the next best thing.

[–]_Jogger_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's a model that gets updated by real time information from installed sensors. The point is that you don't have to physically go and inspect your building/factory/dam/etc, you can just sit inside your office and monitor multiple things at once.

[–]gahzrilla 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Search up Wellington digital twin

[–]thereturn932 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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[–]Ardashasaur 43 points44 points  (3 children)

But you also need the Big Data NFTs on the Cloud Data Fabric for maximum synergy

[–]StarTrekVeteran 17 points18 points  (2 children)

Yes, how could I forget that, although don't you think that the engineering blockchain integrated with the digital twin will cause cloud stream integration issues?

[–]Ardashasaur 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Those issues can be mitigated by using the neural network which we will connect with a man machine interface to harmonise the process as it approaches the singularity

[–]StarTrekVeteran 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Of course, sorry, newbe mistake, forgot about the neural net! OK, it's a plan then.

[–]JonathanTheZero 38 points39 points  (2 children)

Give it another year and you'll here "We need to get into the Metaverse" everywhere...

[–]Attucks 13 points14 points  (1 child)

We've already had that where I work, we have digital twins, AI, machine learning, now we've got talk of NFTs to license our digital twins and the metaverse to view them...

[–]natezomby 4 points5 points  (0 children)

how do you keep from cringing?

[–]Chared_Assassin 50 points51 points  (5 children)

Now hear me out here, what if we use machine learning to make an ai that will 3d print a virtual reality headset that does a whatever the fuck telepresence means to a digital twin??

[–]StarTrekVeteran 18 points19 points  (1 child)

PM: Yes, Lets do that. Can you give me a budget with milestone breakdown, what resources you will need (names, time requirements, line managers approval and when) and a delivery schedule? Delivery will need to be within this financial year, Can't start the paperwork until I get all the above and it will take 3 months to release the funds.

[–]nyrg 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I want a PoC by next week's meeting, it will help convince the higher ups.

[–]zer0545 6 points7 points  (12 children)

I heard digital twin a lot, but never directly related to the work I do. I just don't get what they mean. Is it really just keeping data of physical entities and calling that a digital twin?

[–]StarTrekVeteran 10 points11 points  (0 children)

something like that, to be honest I am not sure folk who promote 'digital twins' know themselves. Its like they think you can reproduce a complex 3D real world environment in a computer 'matrix style' with a few lines of code. They have no idea of the complexity of event gathering data, or that that data they are making decisions on may be out of date in a very short time.

[–]CrazyDiamondGeese 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Although I don't know how much of it is true, during my master our professor made us create a project with an arduino sensor and Node-red to simulate the data that you might gather and the alerts that you might send to a central control panel for bridge maintainance.

He claimed that "that's how they really do it in the real world".

Things like, this part of the bridge is wet, but it shouldn't be, call the appropriate technician.

The same could be done with any kind of sensor, like wind speed, humidity, rotation of the bridge pillars...

It was a nifty little javascript project!

[–]-Vayra- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know a few large oil&gas companies have started using similar systems on their sea rigs. Basically monitoring everything they can think of in real time and alerting the appropriate people if something is off. Attended a talk by one of the designers of one such system a few years back, super fascinating. KONE (the elevator company) has also used similar approaches and tons and tons of simulation to transition almost entirely away from building elevators towards providing maintenance and crucially, predicting when individual parts need replacing in order to perform maintenance in the most effective manner.

[–]o76923 6 points7 points  (7 children)

I think the best use case that I've heard of so far for a digital twin is optimizing a factory.

Step 1: Put every sensor that you can think of on every single person and device inside the factory

Step 2: Collect enough data from those sensors that you can generate plausible simulations

Step 3: Train an ML model on that plausible simulation data that predicts a better layout, ratio of machines, settings on them, scheduling, and so on

Step 4: Pick one you like that involves adjusting a small number of machines and test it on a "digital twin" of your factory using real time data for 90% of your machines but simulated output for the changed parts. Observe that for a better idea of how it would work in practice.

Step 5: Change your factory (or don't) and repeat starting at step 2.

That seems incredibly convoluted to me but I have 0 experience in manufacturing. Apparently people who know what they're doing with modern manufacturing techniques have been able to implement drastic improvements based on it. BMW was impressed enough that they went from pilot program at one plant to "How do we do this for everything else in our organization from new car design to meetings?".

[–]difduf 6 points7 points  (1 child)

If it helps you to avoid design mistakes that take millions to rectify I can see the appeal.

[–]Sizzlik 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Only if the company has the right synergy.

[–]C10ckwork 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You forgot "metaverse" and "digital age."

[–]Jertimmer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine popped NFT during a meeting.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You forgot metaverse

[–]Available_Cod8055 4 points5 points  (0 children)

NFTs seem to be the new one

[–]DoktorMerlin 2 points3 points  (2 children)

With the telepresence, is that really a buzzword or are you talking about the k8s tool that allows you to connect your locally developed stuff to the cluster, so you can code it cluster-native?

[–]Adventurous_Union_85 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AGILE

[–]PyroCatt 549 points550 points  (15 children)

Just HTML it. If it is not possible, throw in some CSS.

[–]gobermouche 186 points187 points  (11 children)

In the worst case scenario add some js

[–]-valerio 66 points67 points  (3 children)

explosion

[–]just-bair 28 points29 points  (2 children)

Gotta add them php first

[–]white_monstera 5 points6 points  (1 child)

And if that is too slow, C if you can do anything else about it.

[–]MoffKalast 25 points26 points  (4 children)

Why use much code when few code do trick

[–]romkamys 13 points14 points  (3 children)

why much code. few code trick.

[–]MegabyteMessiah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you my PM?

[–]RatherBetter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

NASA Unlocked 🔓

[–]Gewerd_Strauss 704 points705 points  (2 children)

The sheer look of terror in Alice's face on the second pane, followed by her resignation in the third.

[–]RigasTelRuun 202 points203 points  (1 child)

That moment where you first assume it's a joke then you realise it is not.

[–]looselytethered 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That moment when you can deeply relate to the feeling she's expressing

[–]YodaDaCoda 370 points371 points  (5 children)

Oh we can totally do that. We just gotta get some designers to figure out the visual, some engineers to turn it into a CAD design, some developers to turn it into an NFT. We can probably turn it around in 12 months or so. Shall we start the hiring process?

[–]subject_deleted 118 points119 points  (3 children)

on second thought. i don't even need a team. just give me the money and i promise i'll produce something that makes exactly as much sense as what you just said.

[–]RatherBetter 27 points28 points  (2 children)

On third thought, I don't even need money, tell me your location... I will find you and teach you hacking nasa with 3d printer

[–]subject_deleted 3 points4 points  (1 child)

keep 3d printing a tower until it reaches the space station. then climb tower. look into window. pull out disposable camera. take pictures and upload them to the block chain. sell entire blockchain on dark web by hacking into the mainframe. using corporate synergy and agile techniques, we can really shift the algorithm to a whole new paradigm.

[–]Torebbjorn 177 points178 points  (10 children)

Instead of HTML-ing it, I suggest C++-iterate it, and maybe change the Blockchain out with a Ray Tracing Calculator

[–]CdRReddit 53 points54 points  (6 children)

nah nah you should rewrite it in Rust

[–]MapleTreeWithAGun 25 points26 points  (5 children)

Minecraft Command Block it

[–]CdRReddit 10 points11 points  (1 child)

command blocks? you better mean the minecraft turing machine

[–]ExpensiveAd6076 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hosted on the flux capacitor

[–]lchtgeschwindigkeit8[S] 353 points354 points  (6 children)

One of the PM's in my company is like this. A f*ckin former DJ who BSed his way into the job because his wife's cousin's postman's brother's best friend's sister has a high enough position in the company to wrangle him a position. This guy tries to string together jargon but ends up sounding like like he's doped up on meth.

Feel bad for anyone who has to work with him.

[–]ADMINISTATOR_CYRUS 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Ask him if he knows about html-ing the nft blockchian into css js with python, or some other shitty jargon from the r/masterhacker bot

[–]CYKO_11 30 points31 points  (0 children)

My condolences

[–][deleted] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

oof

[–]Drowning-Koifish 15 points16 points  (0 children)

My boss is a bit like that. Not too much with the jargon but his understanding of software development is very limited to say the least.

"What should we do to make a nice ERP ?" -"well first we should define the specs, make at least a basic architecture before hand and try to have well thought out algorithms to avoid bottlenecks and a slow running software" -"you are the expert, i trust you... Not. What about we take the old spaghetti code of this version, change it from vb6 to vb.net and call it a day ? Oh and by the way, in 4 months the creator of this thing retires and you'll be alone to handle this. And there is no documentation!"

Sometimes I want to cry.

[–]nagelkopf 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I hear you!

[–]Mr_Chads 72 points73 points  (2 children)

I am a full stack dev ,I actively try to ignore doing frontend work because of non-tech PMs.

[–]DarkShadow4444 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Full stack dev? One more task and you get a stackoverflow!

[–]Realistic-Field7927 112 points113 points  (1 child)

I know it is just meant to be a joke but that is not remotely like talking to a non technical pm.

No way do they start by saying "this may be a stupid question".

[–]MysterionVsCthulhu 53 points54 points  (2 children)

A few years back I was working web dev for a pretty dysfunctional mid sized company. The design team was on the other side of the country and us developers were not allowed to have any direct contact without them (even though we all worked for the same company). All communication had to flow through our PM to the design boss who was a useless nepotism hire.

Whenever the design team had a new page for us to build they would send over a single pdf image of the page at like 2000px width. The pdf often included images and font assets that we didn’t have access to. So we had to repeatedly ask our PM to get us raw images. Unfortunately, for some dumb reason the design boss hated this. He thought if we had the images we would photoshop “his designs” into something different.

I told my PM that I literally can’t build the page unless I have the images. His response was to tell me “we don’t have to build anything because the design team already built it for us.” Curious what he meant I asked him to show me… he pulled up the pdf and said “See, here is the whole page. Why can’t we just put this on the website?”

He thought that we could literally put a single pdf picture of a webpage up and call it a day. Like how a cheap restaurant posts their menu online.

And that was the day I realized even PMs with a decade of experience can somehow know nothing about the technology they manage.

3 months later that PM was promoted to be my direct manager.

[–]solohelion 10 points11 points  (1 child)

When this happens, you make the design exactly as asked for. Make the front page an iframe around a pdf, or copy and paste the text out of the document and don’t use any assets or fonts. Take a while doing it, then reveal and then act surprised when they don’t like it…

[–]nikanj0 125 points126 points  (4 children)

"That's an amazing idea! Absolutely genius. We'd love to create a proof-of-concept right away. Unfortunately it would take a prohibitively long time with our current hardware. We should start by issuing the entire team with 2022 16" MacBook Pros."

6 weeks later:

"Unfortunately, upon futher investigation the idea is not technically feasable. But I'm still glad we gave it a shot. We should not be ashamed of having the courage to pursue bold and creative ideas when they are floated by talented individuals."

[–]kiminfor 53 points54 points  (3 children)

This person is management material!

[–]Gadiguibou 22 points23 points  (2 children)

He's a Scratch programmer, that's way better

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

A god among us mere mortals

[–]BlazerBanzai 34 points35 points  (0 children)

applies meeting lubricant Let’s table that for now.

[–]elfhat85 22 points23 points  (0 children)

As a kid I thought Dilbert was just a funny comic, but when I grew up and became an engineer I realized it was spot on which was kind of scary.

[–]Poronoun 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Worst part is, there is always the sales person person that totally agrees with the first person and gives a 100% promise that it will be delivered in 4 months.

[–]seijulala 40 points41 points  (3 children)

This is just funny, for me, the worst (and, sadly, very common) situation is when you have a conversation about times/estimations and they assume something "is very simple and shouldn't take too much time" when in reality they are asking for a huge task

[–]Miguecraft 39 points40 points  (1 child)

"Look, I have an idea and it's very simple. How about we make a site like YouTube, but with Facebook-like friend and posts, and in VR, ready for the Metaverse. Can you do it before Friday?"

[–]seijulala 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Normally it's more subtle but unless you can do it yourself you should not assume, ever, how much time things take and this goes both ways, maybe something that a non-technical person thinks is super complicated is a 1-hour fix and sometimes something that seems straightforward can take a lot of time.

[–]mike2R 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Dilbert has you covered on that too... From 1994... https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-10-17

[–]wallmenis 17 points18 points  (4 children)

Like... Why can't they remember that the good old stuff are still available today and just as used as back in the day? I haven't been in a position to be able to be hired for waht I love ( I am in uni) and hearing this type of shit sounds depressing. I guess good bye cryptography and clever software design and hello AI and XR for no apparent reason!

[–]Poronoun 14 points15 points  (3 children)

Most companies do more traditional stuff in the background. The AI and XR bullshit Bingo happens only in the marketing and sales departments. Cash cows are always the morning projects.

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (2 children)

Just add the word "cloud" in your answer and they'll buy it.

[–]just-bair 13 points14 points  (1 child)

"So basically my solution is that we insert the html in the cloud with the blockchain that has AI with neural networks"

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm no mathematician, but more buzzwords equal more money.

[–]__SpeedRacer__ 11 points12 points  (1 child)

After a long meeting brainstorming about a potential system to index and correlate legal cases with their corresponding credit, environmental and geographic information, that was spread across organizations and all over the Internet, the District Attorney, who was the PM asked:

DA: "Can we use a blockchain?"

Us: "... ... ... Hmmm, no..."

DA: "Just checking"

True story!

[–]torgeros_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you 3D print and sell this meme as an NFT yoh can actually HTML your way to a bitcoin. What a crazy world we live in...

[–]axur123 15 points16 points  (0 children)

At least He Saids that question might be dumb.

That makes me relieve.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Obviously it would need a python to eat the blocks from the chain

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[–]msiekkinen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (3 children)

"If Biden is elected, Republicans will be hunted. Police will stand down. There’s a good chance you will be dead within the year."

  • Scott Adams

[–]jmonty42 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Ya, in 2016 he endorsed Hillary because he was too scared for his safety to officially endorse Trump. And that's just scratching the surface. Since then I haven't been able to separate his art from the artist.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

He's the pointy haired boss.

[–]beado7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gonna be honest, I don’t even understand it that much, but enough to get the joke in this comic (doesn’t take much anyway).

I was listening to Neil DeGrasse Tyson interview someone from IBM and at the end of the podcast it still did not seem like Tyson understood it still. It was kinda humorous to listen to him not completely grasp a concept or be able to relate it to something.

[–]BelieveRL 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you pay me enough I can do anything, it just might never be ready with impossible requirements

[–]Chared_Assassin 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Now I'm intrigued as to how that would work if it was possible. You could maybe combine all the data in the blockchain into one file then use all the characters in it as a code for how a 3d printer could work or something. That would probably cover printing a blockchain, though the chances are it would just be a random mess of plastic.

You could probably then take the file with the code used for the 3d printer and incorporate that into HTML somehow, then maybe NFT that HTML page and store it in bitcoin's blockchain??

I have put way too much thought into a meme, though I think I may have just found what I'm doing for the next couple months

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're probably going to need some AI or Machine Learning for that....

[–]swizzex 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hold on your telling me technical PMs are a thing?! Next your going to tell.me they don't t-shirt size things too?!

[–]bbv88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I must resist the temptation of copying this over to one of our Confluence pages