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Funny... my roommates and I used "just" for comedic effect in college.

I was stuck writing an algorithm and asked my more-experienced roommate for help. He briefly scanned my code and said, "well, you kind of just... code it."

I looked at him quizzically and just blurted, "straight up?"

"Yep, just straight up code it."

Then we all laughed at the absurdity. He wasn't trying to trivialize the problem, to be clear, but didn't know exactly how to express what he was thinking. But that became our standard answer to any programming challenge. "Just straight up code it."

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I had an office mate, who after our abusive and demeaning boss would leave our office, would quote Gene Hackman from Superman III: “I ask you to kill Superman, and you're telling me you couldn't even do that one, simple thing.”

(Sometimes if she was still in earshot he would say it in Spanish which somehow made it even funnier.)

"it's simple, we kill the batman"

I remember a meeting at FAANG where there was a bunch of discussion about a difficult problem and then a higher-up manager stopped the conversation to interject with

> Guys, we're thinking about this in the wrong way. The solution is to just get the right people together into a room and build the solution.

Which was definitely true but also not useful.

Ppl do this for fun in “souls” video games communities all the time as well.

“This boss can kill you in 2 hits” -> “oh well just don’t get hit”

There’s definitely an aspect that can cheer you on if you are in the right mindset to receive it: everything is in your power, conquer yourself and rise up to the moment

As an engineer, I once opined to a fellow engineer, I wonder how Static Guard works? And he said, "You know what causes static electricity?" Naturally, I said yes. He said, "It makes that go away."

An almost-correct answer if you remember your elementary school science class with charges on glass and amber... Amber being elektron (ἤλεκτρον) and the root of the word electricity. If you coat the amber (or polyester) so it no longer holds a charge, by pairing its charge carriers with molecules that hide them, then you have static guard.

This is very reminiscent of a favorite scene from the show Schitt’s Creek.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NywzrUJnmTo

Somebody has to do the Monty Python quote.

To play the flute, you just blow in this end, and move your fingers up and down on this end.

In the 70s, people thought of programmers as typists.

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