Software Professionals: A Field Guide To Indentification

January 23, 2012 – 10:56 pm

Here’s how you can tell working coders from computer-science Ph.Ds:

Make them mad. We all know when you’re angry you should count to 10; this should be sufficient for distinguishing the two species.

The Coder:

“zero…one…two…three…four…five…six…seven…eight…nine.”

The Ph.D:

“one…two.”

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4 Comments

  1. TheBigHenry says

    Is enunciating 10 digits the same thing as counting to 10?

    Posted January 23, 2012 at 11:33 pm | Permalink
  2. Malcolm says

    I have absolutely no idea. I guess that depends on who you ask.

    Posted January 23, 2012 at 11:51 pm | Permalink
  3. Dom says

    Did you see what Sebastion Thrun is up to?

    http://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/3658-sebastian-thrun-resigns-from-stanford-to-launch-udacity.html

    http://www.stanford.edu/~thrun/

    Posted January 24, 2012 at 8:59 am | Permalink
  4. the one eyed man says

    There are two kinds of people in the world: those who use binary arithmetic, and those who don’t.

    Posted January 24, 2012 at 11:32 am | Permalink

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