The point I was trying to make was not about my literacy, but rather that I instantly recognised the character as a programmer, even though he was meant to be a physicist.
But it could have been an engineer just the same, or a person with advanced electronics experience (Hams are renowned for this sort of thing) and a myriad of other professions and activities where problem solving is the norm rather than the exception.
It's the method that matters, not the actual problem at hand.
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> For an encore, check 'mathematicians are arrogant', 'physicists are arrogant', 'surgeons are arrogant' and so on.
It took me a while to realize that http://xkcd.com/793/ wasn't about programmers..
Ha. My wife is a physicist and appreciated that one. She's not like that - but we know lots of her colleagues who are.
It took me a while to realize that http://xkcd.com/793/ wasn't about programmers..
Even though it was titled physicists?
Yes. The titles seldom add any value to XKCD, so I guess I filtered it out.
To help with that he wrote it again at the bottom of the cartoon.
The point I was trying to make was not about my literacy, but rather that I instantly recognised the character as a programmer, even though he was meant to be a physicist.
Ok, point taken.
But it could have been an engineer just the same, or a person with advanced electronics experience (Hams are renowned for this sort of thing) and a myriad of other professions and activities where problem solving is the norm rather than the exception.
It's the method that matters, not the actual problem at hand.