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(Not my joke) At a recent real-time Java conference, the participants were given an awkward question to answer: "If you had just boarded an airliner and discov
by ajxs 6y ago
(Not my joke)
At a recent real-time Java conference, the participants were given an awkward question to answer:
"If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible for the flight control software, how many of you would disembark immediately?"
Among the forest of raised hands only one man sat motionless. When asked what he would do, he replied that he would be quite content to stay aboard. With his team's software, he said, the plane was unlikely to even taxi as far as the runway, let alone take off.
- minikomi 6y agoI thought the punchline was going to be about waiting for garbage collection to finish
- young_unixer 6y agoIf Java had true garbage collection, it would collect itself.
- drran 6y agoJava is written in C, so it cannot.
- mirekrusin 6y agoTruffle went meta and they have java in java now, which gives some nice things.
- moontear 6y agoIf the plane were my machine there would be no danger.
- 2rsf 6y agoI thought that 'real-time Java' was the joke
- bmgxyz 6y agoI know this joke, but in the version I've heard it's mechanical engineering students instead of programmers, their professors instead of conference participants, and the aircraft itself instead of the flight control software. But the structure is the same.
- selimthegrim 6y agoI think Radio Yerevan wants you to be chief announcer.
- legerdemain 6y agoThe Soviet Union's greatest accomplishment was convincing everyone else in the world that Yerevan exists.
- unkulunkulu 6y agoI have been there, I tell you. You gotta believe!
- Xcelerate 6y agoIt wasn’t until I started working with some of the top software engineers in the industry that I became afraid of flying.
- globular-toast 6y agoReminds me of Arthur C. Clarke's first published short story Travel by Wire!
- dharmab 6y agoThis is a joke, but this was a literal chat conversation that happened between Boeing engineers in regards for the 737 MAX 8. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/business/boeing-737-messages.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/business/boeing-737-messa...