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Back in the day, when you asked an engineer, "How much is 2 x 2", he'd whip out his slide rule, and reply confidently: "approximately 3.99"

• JKCalhoun 5y ago
  Mathematician: "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. The result follows by induction." Physicist: "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is experimental error..." Engineer: "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime..." (Yeah, that old joke.)
  • hereforphone 5y ago
    Modern "Engineer": "What's prime, a new Javascript type?"
    • leetrout 5y ago
      Yep. I interviewed a few years ago and the screener asked me what I have been doing lately and I said mostly vanilla JS and he wanted to know all about that framework and if I would be able to use react
      • tudorconstantin 5y ago
        The tech lead I was working with a few years ago was absolutely certain vanilla js is a framework. To the point he dismissed some candidate for not knowing about it. I guess he was referring to this one http://vanilla-js.com/ http://vanilla-js.com/
        • layer8 5y ago
          Vanilla JS is kinda the neutral element of the framework algebra.
  • bombcar 5y ago
    I’ve heard the last as “9 is prime enough”.
  • pwdisswordfish9 5y ago
    3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is Grothendieck prime…
    • ravi-delia 5y ago
      The Grothendieck primes are the composites which aren't obviously divisible by 2, 3, and 5. For most people, they start at 51.