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What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As someone who spends time programming, I of course find myself in conversations with people who aren't as familiar with it. It doesn't happen all the time, but these discussions can lead to people coming up with some pretty wild misconceptions about what programming is and what programmers do.

I'm sure many of you have had similar experiences. So, I thought it would be interesting to ask.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (16 children)

I mean the classic is that you must be "really good at computers" like I'm okay at debugging, just by being methodical, but if you plop me in front of a Windows desktop and ask me to fix your printer; brother, I haven't fucked with any of those 3 things in over a decade.

I would be as a baby, learning everything anew, to solve your problem.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

fuck printers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah I feel this. Fucking huge mechanical boxes of fucking shite that should he lobbed down the stairs and anyone who wants to print should be beaten with toner cartridges till they are black and blue, or cymk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Especially HP printers and honorable mention to Konica Minoltas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

fuck you. my uncle was a dot matrix.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That reminds me of one of those shit jokes from the eighties:

"There's two new ladies in the typing pool who do a hundred times the work of anyone else."

"What're they called?"

"Daisy Wheel and Dot Matrix."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Oh man love it. In the 80s, I used to go to my grandmother's work after school. She was a stenographer at the neighborhood newspaper in Brooklyn. If she was alive she'd probably love this. My mom ran a copy room for a high school but I think it would go over her head.

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