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Comment by SeekingMeaning | Hacker News Reader

Ah yes, the programmers blame the engineers, and the engineers blame the programmers

When Einstein worked on nuclear bomb the saying was: If he fails French will say he's American, Americans will say he's German, and Germans will say he's Jew. If he succeed Germans will say he's German, Americans will say he's American, and French will say he belongs to the world.

His comment was about the theory of relativity rather than the bomb:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#1910s

Einstein didn't work on the nuclear bomb at all. According to https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/peace-and-war/the-..., he wrote that famous letter to Roosevelt and was later denied the necessary security clearance.

Amateurs. Real programmers blame other programmers.

Jesus who wrote this crap code?

Looks at commit history

Oh it was me...

Past-me is such an idiot...

We should both know better

The productive programmers I've met, and they are pretty up there, tend to blame it on the documented specs.

I think the hardware engineers ought to be blaming the physicist, keep the blame going up the abstraction ladder. Then the physicists can blame the universe, which was created in a lab by software engineers.

Let's not forget the compilers. They're always messing stuff up!

You don't blame the tool. You blame the toolmaker.

Every real toolmaker is gifted with perfect precognitive capabilities so their tool behaves exactly as it should for all users, don'cha'know.

Naw. It's always user error.

I should have included a /s, but was feeling a bit cheeky.

I'm sure you've had to deal with plenty of spurious bug reports in your career :-)

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