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Someone needs to talk to Randall Munroe (author of xkcd) and update the explanation for this. [1] I’m not sure if the comic is taking a dig at those who use Doc

Someone needs to talk to Randall Munroe (author of xkcd) and update the explanation for this. [1] I’m not sure if the comic is taking a dig at those who use Docker or at Docker itself or both (in every case, putting together things they don’t understand well but claiming to have accomplished “enlightenment”). [1]: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1988 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1988

kelnos 9y ago
My take is that it's not even really Docker-specific, but Docker users are a convenient example. There are plenty of programmers (Docker-using and otherwise) who just copy-paste code and glue together frameworks without really understanding what they're doing.
- kakwa_ 9y ago
  CS is a magic blackbox and/or a magic cooking book for a lot of people in the industry.
- secstate 9y ago
  My take is that most people don't know what the hell they're doing most of the time. We're all trying to figure it out. When I was 20 I was copy-pasting the hell out of Rails examples. By being curious and actively incorporating ideas I've come across I've begun (15 years later) to have opinions on things in software development. Am I ever going to be a kernel contributor, or figure out implement compiler optimizations? Unlikely. But I love my job and the people around me support my continued education (in docker and everything else). That's all you can ask for. I love xkcd, but you have to take it with a grain of salt. This comic was written by the same person who wrote this one: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/ https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
zkomp 9y ago
Well the Title is "Containers". Punchline is about writing software or glue together things you dont understand. The mention of that hyped and also hilariously buggy product seems relevant. See https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/ https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-his... for a few years old example of this "gluing together things without understanding"

kelnos 9y ago

My take is that it's not even really Docker-specific, but Docker users are a convenient example. There are plenty of programmers (Docker-using and otherwise) who just copy-paste code and glue together frameworks without really understanding what they're doing.

kakwa_ 9y ago
CS is a magic blackbox and/or a magic cooking book for a lot of people in the industry.
secstate 9y ago
My take is that most people don't know what the hell they're doing most of the time. We're all trying to figure it out. When I was 20 I was copy-pasting the hell out of Rails examples. By being curious and actively incorporating ideas I've come across I've begun (15 years later) to have opinions on things in software development. Am I ever going to be a kernel contributor, or figure out implement compiler optimizations? Unlikely. But I love my job and the people around me support my continued education (in docker and everything else). That's all you can ask for. I love xkcd, but you have to take it with a grain of salt. This comic was written by the same person who wrote this one: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/ https://www.xkcd.com/1053/

zkomp 9y ago

Well the Title is "Containers". Punchline is about writing software or glue together things you dont understand. The mention of that hyped and also hilariously buggy product seems relevant. See https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/ https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-his... for a few years old example of this "gluing together things without understanding"