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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by yeuxardents on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:22PM (#25855357)
I sent this to a project manager once, and they didnt understand nor appreciate it.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by cantsingh on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:36PM (#25855445)
They must be a project manager.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by yeuxardents on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:44PM (#25855500)
I, perhaps appropriately, improperly calculated their threshold for humor.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by mkarliner on Thursday January 21, 2021 @03:04AM (#25856614)
No, he did't deliver the joke fast enough.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by oumua_don17 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @03:43AM (#25856815)
And neither did he create a jira story for delivering the joke in the sprint!!!
Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by Cthulhu_ on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:14AM (#25857359)
Project managers wouldn't read the story anyway, they cough up the headline and maybe a few lines of text and expect the team to fill in the blanks during multiple refinement meetings.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by nvader on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:49PM (#25866337)
Adding another layer of indirection:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866318

Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by faeyanpiraat on Thursday January 21, 2021 @02:44AM (#25856513)
This is the comment that made me laugh, well done!
Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by ssss11 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:10AM (#25856023)
I’m a project manager and find it hilarious! But i’ve also been technical.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by drno123 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:46AM (#25856221)
So you are not "project manager", but "competent project manager", which is something completely different :)
Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by uncledave on Thursday January 21, 2021 @02:40AM (#25856494)
I’ve never met one of them in the wild. A rare thing indeed.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by cornel_io on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:11AM (#25857337)
They're actually more common than engineers with understanding of project management or the concerns that they quite reasonably have. And they're way more valuable than a zug-zug eng.

I say this as a pure engineer who has been a lead many times but never a PM.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by KrishMunot on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:39PM (#25861605)
I bet a product manager would be more kind