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> Asynchronous "who's on first" What does that mean? "On first"?
by cutemonster 6y ago
> Asynchronous "who's on first"
What does that mean? "On first"?
- frosted-flakes 6y ago"Who's on First" is a well-known comedy skit about baseball. Who is on first base, What is on second, and I Don't Know is on third. https://youtu.be/kTcRRaXV-fg https://youtu.be/kTcRRaXV-fg
- digitalsushi 6y agoThank you for explaining that. I speak English as a first language and it parsed perfectly well without knowing this reference, and to that end, parsed perfectly incorrectly.
- Pxtl 6y agoI just mean the repeated loops of miscommunication based on the fundamental misunderstanding of a single word. "Who's on first?" is a comedy sketch where two men are discussing a man named "who" and various other people with misleading names. I've run into many times where a person has said a similar but distinct term - like they said "repo" when they mean "branch" and then burn 5 minutes of time while two people are confused by the fact that nothing the other person says makes sense. It feels like the latency-time of writing makes shaking this mess out take 5X longer than spoken conversation.,
- cutemonster 6y agoOk now I get it. Async Who's on first could take a whole month I suspect