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i often just refer to it as waterboarding.
by esses 11y ago
i often just refer to it as waterboarding.
- ktRolster 11y agowhiterboarding?
- kafkaesq 11y agoI just call it "whiteboarding". Seems to convey the subjective experience quite aptly.
- garrettgrimsley 11y agoHave you ever been waterboarded? Putting waterboarding on the same level as whiteboard coding interviews is minimizing the horrific experience of those who have been waterboarded.
- nsxwolf 11y agoNot many people have been waterboarded, and most were terrorists, so it's not the same as a holocaust joke. In a world where we're not allowed to laugh at anything connected to some kind of injustice, then yes, that wasn't funny. But I laughed.
- Phlarp 11y ago>and most were terrorists Do you have a source on this?
- kafkaesq 11y agoPutting waterboarding on the same level as whiteboard coding interviews is minimizing the horrific experience of those who have been waterboarded. I guess it is, if you read it literally. But I don't think people mean it literally when they joke about it, nor are they making a serious comparison between the two experiences.
- anon4 11y agoHave you ever minimized a horrific experience? Putting an innocent metaphoric hyperbole on the same level as denying the holocaust makes you literally Hitler.
- metaphorm 11y agook sure, but this conversation is figurative not literal. it would be horribly wrong to literally put whiteboarding on the same level as waterboarding. I don't see any problem with using figurative language and expressive metaphors to help convey a particular emotion felt about something that is common to the lives of those participating in the conversation.
- jorgecurio 11y agoI think they really downplay how much of a panic/anxiety these type of closed room with no ventiliation with solemn looking people judging your every move. I could never calm down and think but the interviewers wanted to test how you would code on a whiteboard under duress