Author Topic: How users see programmers vs How programmers see users (Read 1323 times)

Bonobo · « **on:** October 18, 2011, 08:23:47 PM »

Just to clarify the difference between me, a user, and you, the coders

http://smileytext.com/2011/10/how-users-see-programmers-vs-how-programmers-see-u

Aino · « **Reply #1 on:** October 18, 2011, 08:57:25 PM »

Genious picture, so you guys are dinosaurs and club men?

freddyhard · « **Reply #2 on:** October 20, 2011, 12:03:40 PM »

i've always been dabbling in code. so does that make me an intelligent dinosaur?

Sniped50 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 21, 2011, 11:45:16 AM »

It ain't just the programmers that some people see as hyper-intelligent humanoid aliens. You have no idea how many times, whenever I tell them that I want to be an astrophysicist, people just go, "

", "Oooh! What do they do?", or "Is that something to do with telling the future?"

freddyhard · « **Reply #4 on:** October 21, 2011, 01:25:59 PM »

i remember having to explain to people what a computer was back in the 1980's.

'just think of how stupid the average person is, then consider that ½ of them are more stupid than that' - george carlin

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 21, 2011, 05:12:06 PM »

TBH, any technical profession will get more than it's fair share of confusion, unless it's engineer-y stuff. Then people just assume you build bridges, regardless of whether you're in nuclear or astrotech or chemical or whatever.

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