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1. 12 things computer programmers know
That most people don’t!

2. We came across a Quora thread about
‘some things that programmers know,
but most people don't’
We decided to compile some of the
best ones as well as ask some of the
Aditians what they thought!
Here are 12 things only programmers
will understand!

3. "A parent may kill its children
if the task assigned to
them is no longer needed"
Suhas Grama, Software Engineer
# 1 EXPLAIN THAT TO A
NON-
PROGRAMMER!

4. "Programming" is thinking, not typing.
Most of programming is spent sleeping, walking
around, staring out the window,
or doing anything else that helps
you relax and think."
Casey Patton, FDE
# 2

5. "All hacking scenes in
movies are complete bullshit."
Suhas Grama, Software Engineer
# 3

6. "Computers can't actually
generate a truly random number.”
Emmett Meehan
# 4
YOU DON’T SAY!

7. “String and thread are
the same thing
to Non computing
people”
Venkataraman Ramasubramaniam, Mobile App
Developer
# 5
Wait! What?!

8. “The value of a semicolon”
Akshat Sood
# 6

9. "That the computer is actually a
very dumb Machine and all the
intelligent things that you see it
do are actually the intelligence
of the programmer at work!”
Maulik Prabhudesai, Engineer
# 7

10. “One person’s crappy software
is another person’s full time job”
Jessica Gaston
# 8

11. “Beware of bugs in
the above code;
I have only proved
it correct, not tried
it.”
Donald Knuth
# 9

12. “Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V have saved
more lives than Batman and
Robin”
Arjun Kamath, Aditi Technologies
# 10

13. “My best code is going to be
Greek to you anyway, so why
bother making it readable.”
Rohit Saigal, Aditi Technologies
# 11 <code customization>
<version> </Version>
<it’s true>

14. “Sharpest minds don’t need C# or jazzy
windows to hack in. Some things are best
done in ugly consoles and unreadable
scripts...”
Rohit Saigal, Aditi Technologies
# 12

15. Tell us some of the
things you know
as a programmer
that others don’t!

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