Timeline for How do you share your craft with non programmers?
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| Mar 31, 2016 at 15:36 | comment | added | gbjbaanb | @Alison and the doctors that try 'building new systems' with their clients usually get struck off | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 13:54 | comment | added | Andy Hunt | I usually go with "I do boring stuff with computers, mostly". Not a great line to use in clubs, sadly. | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 13:34 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by user1712 | ||
| Feb 1, 2012 at 22:46 | comment | added | pdr | This is what I do. Then I wait for the 5 seconds of silence and say "Annnnnd there's that conversation-killer out of the way. So what do you do?" | |
| Mar 4, 2011 at 14:53 | comment | added | Sorantis | Yes. The easiest answer is "I create stuff...more specifically, I create a high availability real-time cluster system, for..." - and here they are gone... | |
| Mar 4, 2011 at 14:50 | comment | added | Armand | @Brian except most doctors fix problems rather than building new systems ;) | |
| Mar 3, 2011 at 20:37 | comment | added | Brian Ortiz | I've found that people tend to change the subject as soon as I mention computers. Either that or they start complaining about their computer and asking for advice. I guess doctors have the same problem. | |
| Mar 3, 2011 at 15:01 | comment | added | Joel Etherton | +1 - I use this method all the time. If I really want them to know how my day went, I'll throw some terms at them and watch that glassy look take over their eyes. Then someone changes the subject. | |
| Sep 8, 2010 at 22:16 | history | answered | JohnFx | CC BY-SA 2.5 |