The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@dcon Our hazing in college was a class with far more advanced math than we were used to coming from high-school. At some point the hazer-pretending-to-be-a-professor calculated the limit of a series by "calculating the rotational" and transforming ∞/∞ into 8/8.
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@dcon I often think of a similar point when pondering the wastefulness of meetings. Every cut in a cake loses some cake to crumbs. If the cuts are few enough and with a thin enough knife, then the loss of cake is negligible as a percentage of the whole cake. If, on the other hand, the cake is cut into too many pieces, the loss of cake to crumbs can be a sizable percentage.
Similarly, every meeting is like cutting a block of the programmer's time into two pieces. The recovery time for the programmer to remember what he was thinking when he was interrupted for the meeting is like the crumbs. Cutting his time into too many pieces is like cutting the cake into small pieces where the loss to crumbs is substantial and the cake loses its integrity as cake.
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon I often think of a similar point when pondering the wastefulness of meetings. Every cut in a cake loses some cake to crumbs. If the cuts are few enough and with a thin enough knife, then the loss of cake is negligible as a percentage of the whole cake. If, on the other hand, the cake is cut into too many pieces, the loss of cake to crumbs can be a sizable percentage.
Similarly, every meeting is like cutting a block of the programmer's time into two pieces. The recovery time for the programmer to remember what he was thinking when he was interrupted for the meeting is like the crumbs. Cutting his time into too many pieces is like cutting the cake into small pieces where the loss to crumbs is substantial and the cake loses its integrity as cake.
Nice analogy, but in case of meetings the cake is cut with a hammer.
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon I often think of a similar point when pondering the wastefulness of meetings. Every cut in a cake loses some cake to crumbs. If the cuts are few enough and with a thin enough knife, then the loss of cake is negligible as a percentage of the whole cake. If, on the other hand, the cake is cut into too many pieces, the loss of cake to crumbs can be a sizable percentage.
Similarly, every meeting is like cutting a block of the programmer's time into two pieces. The recovery time for the programmer to remember what he was thinking when he was interrupted for the meeting is like the crumbs. Cutting his time into too many pieces is like cutting the cake into small pieces where the loss to crumbs is substantial and the cake loses its integrity as cake.
There is actually data that says that the time loss is 15-30 minutes, depending on complexity of the work. And that is for even simple things as someone sticking their head in and asking a few questions. So, most programmers will waste 1 hour or so per day on useless crap. Without counting the actual time spent in meetings, which may or may not be useless crap as well.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
At some point the hazer-pretending-to-be-a-professor calculated the limit of a series by "calculating the rotational" and transforming ∞/∞ into 8/8.
Quantum Physicists!
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@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
So, most programmers will waste 1 hour or so per day on useless crap. Without counting the actual time spent in
meetingsTDWTF, which may or may not be useless crap as well.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Quantum Physicists!
You can't be sure what they're up to unless you're watching them?
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon Our hazing in college was a class with far more advanced math than we were used to coming from high-school. At some point the hazer-pretending-to-be-a-professor calculated the limit of a series by "calculating the rotational" and transforming ∞/∞ into 8/8.
I suppose he got the correct answer because he carefully chose the example so that the limit was actually 1.
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@Bulb He did in fact. I came to appreciate this once learning about limits myself. I don't remember the specifics anymore, alas. I can barely remember any calculus at all unfortunately. :(
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@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There is actually data that says that the time loss is 15-30 minutes, depending on complexity of the work. And that is for even simple things as someone sticking their head in and asking a few questions.
And here is this data:
https://heeris.id.au/trinkets/ProgrammerInterrupted.png
(https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-a-programmer/)
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Quantum Physicists!
: And what's your job?
: I am a quantum mechanic.
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
(https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-a-programmer/)
Btw, I have printed the PDF version of that and pinned it to the side of my desk.
It makes developers laugh when they come and see me. I can point to it when non-developers come and see me.
But both groups still come and see me, so I have to assume it doesn't really work.
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@remi I'm rather wondering about unsanctioned cartoons on company property.
I vaguely remember a relevant Dilbert where comics lampooning the management were put on cubicle walls ( I don't understand the joke, so I don't like it), but... well, it's gone. All gone.
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@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
most programmers will waste 1 hour or so per day on useless crap.
Those are rookie numbers
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@dcon In case anyone here missed it, there are indeed instructions available. https://www.stopabductions.com/
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@Mason_Wheeler I still don't see any! There is something pretending to be butter.
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler I still don't see any! There is something pretending to be butter.
I can’t believe it’s not butter!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I was in this picture.
Which one were you?
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@Watson said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I was in this picture.
Which one were you?
Yes.
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler I still don't see any! There is something pretending to be butter.
If a guest asks for a Kleenex, I tell them, "I'm sorry, we don't have any Kleenex." (In case anyone doesn't get this, here, Kleenex, although technically a brand name, is used in common parlance to mean any "facial tissue".)
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
here, Kleenex, although technically a brand name, is used in common parlance to mean any "facial tissue"
Same there here in Quebec. At least people that speak French do
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
At least people that speak French
But who cares about them?
here in Quebec
I'm so sorry.
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@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There is actually data that says that the time loss is 15-30 minutes, depending on complexity of the work. And that is for even simple things as someone sticking their head in and asking a few questions. So, most programmers will waste 1 hour or so per day on useless crap. Without counting the actual time spent in meetings, which may or may not be useless crap as well.
This is the kind of thing they teach you in business school?
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There is actually data that says that the time loss is 15-30 minutes, depending on complexity of the work. And that is for even simple things as someone sticking their head in and asking a few questions. So, most programmers will waste 1 hour or so per day on useless crap. Without counting the actual time spent in meetings, which may or may not be useless crap as well.
This is the kind of thing they teach you in business school?
I'm pretty sure they don't, since this is somewhat useful information.
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@izzion said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler I still don't see any! There is something pretending to be butter.
I can’t believe it’s not butter!
But can you tell the difference between it, and a dead crab? Because customers of Whizzo Butter couldn’t…
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
here in Quebec
I'm so sorry.
You've got it backwards. It's the people living in that are supposed to say they're sorry.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm so sorry.
Could be worse, I could be in Texas or Commifornia
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
here in Quebec
I'm so sorry.
You've got it backwards. It's the people living in that are supposed to say they're sorry.
I thought they were supposed to say "sorey".
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
here in Quebec
I'm so sorry.
You've got it backwards. It's the people living in that are supposed to say they're sorry.
I thought they were supposed to say "sorey".
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
FTFAHey now, my storage devices are numerically identified!
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Also, both are noisy. But video cards are a lot less effective to woo women.