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It took me a while to realize that http://xkcd.com/793/ http://xkcd.com/793/ wasn't about programmers.. Even though it was titled physicists?

• mseebach 16y ago
  Yes. The titles seldom add any value to XKCD, so I guess I filtered it out.
  • jacquesm 16y ago
    To help with that he wrote it again at the bottom of the cartoon.
    • mseebach 16y ago
      The point I was trying to make was not about my literacy, but rather that I instantly recognised the character as a programmer, even though he was meant to be a physicist.
      • jacquesm 16y ago
        Ok, point taken. But it could have been an engineer just the same, or a person with advanced electronics experience (Hams are renowned for this sort of thing) and a myriad of other professions and activities where problem solving is the norm rather than the exception. It's the method that matters, not the actual problem at hand.