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And of course there are the demo fairies, who magically make your fully working prototype stop working only when presented in front of an audience.

• david-given 10y ago
  Have you heard of quantum bogodynamics? The theory is that there's an elemental particle, the bogon. When this is absorbed by a piece of equipment, it frequently malfunctions. Good engineers, over time, become bogon sinks, so that when there's an engineer around the bogon absorption rate of the equipment they're working on drops. Meanwhile, managers tend to become bogon _emitters_. So, give a device to them and it instantly fails. Pauli, here, sounds like he was a massive bogon source. This handily explains the effect where the device will reliably fail but when an engineer shows up to look at it, it works fine. It also explains why demos are so flaky: all those people watching the demo are emitting a massive bogon flux...
  • calgoo 10y ago
    I read the first line as: "Have you heard of quantum Bogeyman" Going to get a second cup of coffee now...
    • Bromskloss 10y ago
      "Our lord and saviour."
• Zardoz84 10y ago
  The "Demo effect"