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This conversation reminds of the old programmer joke:

How many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Five. One to screw in the light bulb and four to say, "I could have done that."

Surely at least one or two of them would say "Instead of wasting time with light bulbs I would have been building something people want."

And the other two built a social network for the lightbulbs?

I believe there's either products or perhaps a kickstarter for lamps where the light will change depending on whether your friends lamps are on or off.

> How many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

none. it's a hardware problem.

And the converse,

How many electrical engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None. It'll be fixed in a driver patch.

I could have made this joke much more succinctly in another language.

What's so impressive about screwing in a lightbulb. I don't get it.

That's a bit too subtle for this place these days, colleague

At least you got it! ;-)

Offtopic, but a quick googling led me to this: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~omri/Humor/lightbulb.html

Fun read!

Off-Offtopic! But I loved this one:

How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

False.

How many ed users does it take to change a light bulb?

How many Javascripers does it take to change a lightbulb?

NaN.

Nice, but where's the Java Enterprise (tm) solution?

Funny! But why just five? It would work just the same with "hundreds"...

Being specific is funnier than being general: http://2012.scriptfrenzy.org/node/413100

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