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That reminds me, I was once going into a clinic, and a guy coming out was looking at a paper in his hand, then at me, and said "Positive is good, right? It says
by beagle3 6y ago
That reminds me, I was once going into a clinic, and a guy coming out was looking at a paper in his hand, then at me, and said "Positive is good, right? It says here HIV positive. That's good, right?"
The people who want the turingness to be complete are the ones who want the HIV to be positive. And I've never met any of those making budgetary decisions, though I'm sure some exist.
(For the record, it was someone I knew, and he was a joker. He was not HIV positive, this was just a joke).
- hinkley 6y agoThat is not a funny joke, and yet I can see a couple of my relatives making it. It's often less about Turing Complete specifically and more about feature factory thinking. "You mean we could have a feature for a bit more (or less) work right now? Why wouldn't we want to have that? Think of all the money we can make!" followed 18 months later by pathological inability to understand why development has slowed down so much due to opportunity costs for which they spent the bonus check so long ago they can't even remember if they had fun spending it.