xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From
xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From
Title text:
Historians: Contemporaneous documentation of the initial events is often sparse, and in fact people often get testy and uncooperative when we urge better documentation for the historical record.
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3127/
21 replies
Wouldn’t “inheritance” be a better answer for the software engineer?
“Instantiation” would be my guess.
This is why recursion is bad, folks. It leads to weird results and often fails to properly terminate.
But on the other hand, tail recursion is its own reward!
I like Dependent Injection, myself
The hospital, they come from the hospital. Along with a bill for $120k.
That's where Americans come from. Thanks all gods, most babies are not American.
Most babies are Indian or Chinese
Indian babies are mostly free (or a much more reasonable charge)(assuming no pregnancy complications requiring a very fancy operation in a private hospital)
The only correct answer so far
Only for Americans who have been conned that healthcare really costs that much.
Why would you pay that much to give birth in a hostipital?
I mean I wouldn't. But then I don't want to have kids. But this is America I'm talking about here, so you know. Hell.
I am not enough of an expert in the other fields to compare how stupid those answers are, but the software engineer seems like it is quite different to the others.
For the other professions, it seems to me, as a layman in those fields, that they are applying their own fields' jargon to come up with a silly answer. But in the case of an an off-by-one error, some software engineer had to make an error. They had to be bad at their normal job. The other professions seem like they are simply too good at their normal jobs to have common sense elsewhere. That's why software engineer seems quite different.
It really feels like the parallel answer for software engineers would be something to do with "multiple inheritance" or "mixins".
So ...
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You didn't notice it by now?
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Software engineers are bad at their jobs.
It's just that everyone else is worse.
The point is that they weren't portrayed that way in the comic.
I think the parent comment meant "everyone else is worse at software engineering"
You know, that makes a lot more sense than what they actually wrote. You've convinced me that they meant to say what you said instead of what they said.
I think this might be a joke similar to https://xkcd.com/2030/
ASDF-Movie 13: Baby Gun.