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Classics like that "everyone knows about" are still new to many thousands engineers every year and definitely worth bringing out for an airing every now and aga

Classics like that "everyone knows about" are still new to many thousands engineers every year and definitely worth bringing out for an airing every now and again! Thoughts on that topic -> https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/supporting-the-ten-thousand/ https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/supporting-the-ten-thous...

kristianc 8y ago
And I bet there are still some people that haven’t seen the XKCD...
- MastrChefRocks 8y ago
  Ten Thousand is possibly my favorite strip from xkcd. I always share it with people when they're learning something they feel dumb for not knowing.
  - Agentlien 8y ago
    Speaking of which. About 8 years ago I casually mentioned the diet coke and menthos thing to one of my closest friends. He had no idea what I was talking about. I got really excited and told him that we were going to go buy some immediately. He seemed really confused and sceptical for the whole trip there and back. In the end we had a wonderful time.
Freak_NL 8y ago
It might help if every new software developer was at least forced to grok the five monkeys in a cage parable: https://hipmonkey.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/5-monkeys-a-banana-and-a-ladder/ https://hipmonkey.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/5-monkeys-a-banan... Afterwards gently point them towards the familiar examples of passwords (“Passwords can't contain spaces/be longer than 20 characters/must …”), email address validation (“I found this really complete regex that …”), names (“No, surnames are always at least 3 characters long, and …”), and sex/gender (“Haha, yeah I know gender isn't a binary option, but this is the sex field, it just records what's in the user's passport, and THAT is either male or female!”¹). 1: Nope: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/10/gender-x-first-gender-neutral-passport-in-nl/ https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/10/gender-x-first-gender-...
- kwhitefoot 8y ago
  ? 1: Nope: And not everyone has a passport or other standardised ID document.

kristianc 8y ago

And I bet there are still some people that haven’t seen the XKCD...

MastrChefRocks 8y ago
Ten Thousand is possibly my favorite strip from xkcd. I always share it with people when they're learning something they feel dumb for not knowing.
- Agentlien 8y ago
  Speaking of which. About 8 years ago I casually mentioned the diet coke and menthos thing to one of my closest friends. He had no idea what I was talking about. I got really excited and told him that we were going to go buy some immediately. He seemed really confused and sceptical for the whole trip there and back. In the end we had a wonderful time.

Freak_NL 8y ago

It might help if every new software developer was at least forced to grok the five monkeys in a cage parable: https://hipmonkey.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/5-monkeys-a-banana-and-a-ladder/ https://hipmonkey.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/5-monkeys-a-banan... Afterwards gently point them towards the familiar examples of passwords (“Passwords can't contain spaces/be longer than 20 characters/must …”), email address validation (“I found this really complete regex that …”), names (“No, surnames are always at least 3 characters long, and …”), and sex/gender (“Haha, yeah I know gender isn't a binary option, but this is the sex field, it just records what's in the user's passport, and THAT is either male or female!”¹). 1: Nope: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/10/gender-x-first-gender-neutral-passport-in-nl/ https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/10/gender-x-first-gender-...

kwhitefoot 8y ago
? 1: Nope: And not everyone has a passport or other standardised ID document.