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What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming
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As someone who spends time programming, I of course find myself in conversations with people who aren't as familiar with it. It doesn't happen all the time, but these discussions can lead to people coming up with some pretty wild misconceptions about what programming is and what programmers do.

  • I'm sure many of you have had similar experiences. So, I thought it would be interesting to ask.
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I think that non-tech people think that tech just goes. Like you pull it out of a box and turn it on and it just works. They have no idea how much jenk is in everything and how much jenk was eradicated before a user came went anywhere near.

[–] ExperimentalGuy 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What do you mean by jenk? Is that a specific term used to refer to tech junk?

[–] flumph 19 points 9 months ago

They mean jank:

jan·ky adjective, informal adjective: jank

of extremely poor or unreliable quality.
"the software is pretty janky"
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Jank?

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