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0 pointsalanh9y ago0 comments

> I just explain things really slowly and simply to a very fast idiot for a living.

Given that I have the same job as you do, this took me an embarrassing number of seconds to understand.

Well said.

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faraggi9y ago

I don't know what he means. why 'fast idiot'?

All I come up with is you guys are lawyers?

rpedroso9y ago

They're programmers, the fast idiot is a computer.

epalmer9y ago

I must be slow today. I had to read this comment to know what a fast idiot is. I too work with fast idiots. But now I'm slightly embarrassed. Time for more coffee I think.

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arghimonmobile09y ago

Computers are high-speed morons, according to folklore. If I had the source I'd quote it.

smaddox9y ago

I'm not sure he was the first, but Feynman talks about computers being really fast but dopey filers in one of his lectures for laymen.

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