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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- (attributed to) Salvador Dali
by praptak 6y ago
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- (attributed to) Salvador Dali
- st_goliath 6y ago"Human beings may not be perfect, but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's problems." -- JC Denton
- iExploder 6y agoquoting people who were not born yet is not allowed
- saagarjha 6y agoI wish my computer gave me answers, instead of questions like “why is a core being hogged by the calendar syncing service” and “why am I getting a kernel panic every two hours” or “why do I even bother clicking ‘Always Allow’ on prompts for git to have access to my GitHub credentials when it never remembers my decision”.
- praptak 6y agoThe quip is more about importance of coming up with good questions. If you interpret it like this it may even be applicable to the problems you mention. Asking good questions is after all an important part of troubleshooting tech problems.
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoThe answer to all of your questions: because of shitty programmers and/or PMs.
- saagarjha 6y agoNext question: what can I do about this?
- knutwannheden 6y agoI thought that quote was from Pablo Picasso.
- 3cham 6y ago"Never trust quotes from the internet" - Abraham Lincoln
- qayxc 6y agoCunningham's Law comes to mind :) [0] (Yes, I am aware that I totally missed the chance of going real meta here and called it Atwood's law or something instead) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#Cunningham's_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#Cunningham's_L...