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The flip side of this is the pleasant surprise of working with a near-retirement age grandma who assures you that she "isn't technical" and "doesn't know how to
by jiggawatts 18d ago
The flip side of this is the pleasant surprise of working with a near-retirement age grandma who assures you that she "isn't technical" and "doesn't know how to use a computer", but will studiously write down every keyboard shortcut on little post-it notes and add it to their collection like they're porcelain cats she found at the Sunday markets. I've watched some of these people operate a computer in a manner reminiscent of watching an F1 driver at work, the screen just a blur as their fingers dance over the keyboard.
- Groxx 18d agoAbsolutely, the ones that are clearly trying more than make up for the rest imo, and some are stunning. There are a lot of them. And many of the rest are just having a bad brain day and need help rubber-ducking to see the thing right in front of them - we've all been there, many times.
- the__alchemist 18d agoThis sounds like "Smart person who has little technical experience and might have cognitive decline from age". The world is fully of people who's intelligence is legitimately lower than you might expect.
- brabel 18d ago> The world is fully of people who's intelligence What an example of a sentence a person *whose intelligence is lower than you might expect would write. I can only imagine this was intentional.
- the__alchemist 18d agoCould you clarify? Are you using the typo as this basis, or something else?
- mkl 18d agoI'm not the same person, but probably. There are at least two errors in the quoted fragment, though personally I don't think either is especially indicative of a lack of intelligence.
- brabel 18d agoThere were 2 typos in that sentence (the one I didn’t mention is “fully” instead of “full”). Talking about intelligence in such a sloppy manner sounded like a joke to me.
- the__alchemist 18d agoAh sry - phone typing
- bogdanoff_2 17d agoThis makes me think of "we're all just temporarily abled". This proves the point -- sometimes we're just typing on our phone, lol
- steveBK123 17d agoCognitive decline from age is something the SWE community also neglects to think about. You may feel superior to the average IQ person right now, but we're all going to regress to that point & worse at some point. Design software & plan your life accordingly.