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Topic	Something I've noticed about engineer/programmer types
Notti 05/26/21 8:00:39 AM #19:	pinky0926 posted... You'll ask if something is possible and they'll say "no" almost before the sentence is out. And then you ask why and they get annoyed, and give an impenetrably technical answer and then say it's a stupid idea anyway. And then by the end of the day they've come up with a simple solution that took them a couple of hours to figure out. This applies in my daily life to IT/software issues but I can almost imagine it happening in every day contexts too. "Hey Tim, any chance we can get some more milk?" "No." "How come?" "Lactose is a finite resource that is expensive to produce and not good for your overall gut biome. You shouldn't be drinking milk anyway." 2 hours go by and Tim gets in his car to go to tesco to buy another carton pinky0926 posted... I used to work in digital marketing and now I work in tech so I hope I'm quite good at asking these questions by now. I do note how instantly defensive devs can be, though. Probably for this reason. So I like to ask the question, pretend to accept the "No, not possible, stupid idea" answer and then just go make a coffee and wait for them to muddle it over for a bit. The Site Suggestions forum. (back in the day when it was populated) And instead of hours, change that to years. --- https://youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/videos Bernie>Biden>poo>Trump https://RightWingWatch.org https://reddit.com/r/BreadTube https://fb.me/OccupyDemocrats <cite>Notti posted [p:954312896] in Something ... [t:79478973]...</cite> <quote><cite>pinky0926 posted...</cite> <quote>You'll ask if something is possible and they'll say "no" almost before the sentence is out. And then you ask why and they get annoyed, and give an impenetrably technical answer and then say it's a stupid idea anyway. And then by the end of the day they've come up with a simple solution that took them a couple of hours to figure out. This applies in my daily life to IT/software issues but I can almost imagine it happening in every day contexts too. "Hey Tim, any chance we can get some more milk?" "No." "How come?" "Lactose is a finite resource that is expensive to produce and not good for your overall gut biome. You shouldn't be drinking milk anyway." 2 hours go by and Tim gets in his car to go to tesco to buy another carton </quote> <cite>pinky0926 posted...</cite> <quote> I used to work in digital marketing and now I work in tech so I hope I'm quite good at asking these questions by now. I do note how instantly defensive devs can be, though. Probably for this reason. So I like to ask the question, pretend to accept the "No, not possible, stupid idea" answer and then just go make a coffee and wait for them to muddle it over for a bit. </quote> The Site Suggestions forum. (back in the day when it was populated) And instead of hours, change that to years. --- https://youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/videos Bernie>Biden>poo>Trump https://RightWingWatch.org https://reddit.com/r/BreadTube https://fb.me/OccupyDemocrats</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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