Given the stereotypical difficulty of “product folks” and programmers agreeing on and building shared understanding of what to build, this joke seems clear and straightforward. It works because of course, the customer and the programmer failed to agree on something simple.

Nope.

I really love this reply and especially how it promotes genuine decency rather than coerced decency. I know I’m not exactly adding to the discussion, but I really wanted to recognize how warm this reply felt to me with something more than a mere upvote.

Surely you mean 5318008.

Za.

Not in one move.

Thomas Dolby, “I love you, goodbye”.

• Sync
• Vyte
• FollowUpThen
• Todoist
• Insight Timer
• DNSimple
• Netlify

New Dutch programming language just dropped.

Very no.

Ultra Edit 32 was excellent.

Agile as she is spoke. 🤷

Options have value.

Options expire.

🤷

You don’t even need the hyphen!

Mind = blown.

So… Just like general-purpose software development? I hope you get to work without LLMs.

I assumed Python was unpopular in England, because programmers couldn’t spell __init__(). 🤷

Should be “wið”, no? 😉

Low feels more numb than dark. More like being on pause than everything is terrible. More “I’ll try again later” and less “this is never going to get better”.

I don’t remember the transition. I can’t tell you how long it took. I was only on antidepressant medication for about 18 months.

Peace.

I see that they’ve gone back to the name “The Daily WTF”. For some time, they changed to “Worse than failure” in order to avoid not even the word “fuck”. 🤷

https://thedailywtf.com/

Welcome! I guess this is your Ten Thousand moment for a mediocre joke for old programmers. 💪👍