The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)

Re:The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985) by V-2 on Sunday January 25, 2015 @05:30PM (#8944512)

I have read somewhere (it could be apocryphal, although it makes sense) that for this very reason barbers tend to snip their scissors in the air a lot - to give off an impression that there's more work being done than there actually is...

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Re:The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985) by collyw on Monday January 26, 2015 @07:43AM (#8946687)

I can confirm this happens in high end hairdressers.

I have never spent a lot on haircuts, and a few years ago when I was going from long to short hair (for a job interview), my mum offered to pay for an expensive haircut for me. The haircut was not really any "better" than many of the cheap ones I had paid for myself, but the hairdresser spent a lot more time, and there seemed to be a lot more faffing about, with no real purpose as far as I could see.

Most of the places I had gone to obviously needed a bit higher throughput to keep the money coming in.

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Re:The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985) by V-2 on Monday January 26, 2015 @05:10PM (#8949916)

As a friend of mine told me, "I don't get it how my haircut can take 5 minutes and cost 25 [nevermind the currency here], while my wife sits there for 1.5h paying 150" - so I pointed out that HER haircut is actually cheaper :) Profound? Perhaps... On the subject? Quite so! ;)

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