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Gianni R Feb 26, 2024

What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?

What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it? - Lemmy

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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UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT Feb 26, 2024

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 10 desktop and ask me to fix your printer; brother, I have 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.

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GrizzlyMitts Feb 26, 2024

fuck printers

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blazeknave Feb 26, 2024

fuck you. my uncle was a dot matrix.

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rmuk Feb 26, 2024

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.”

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blazeknave

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.