100, 1 to hold the light bulb and 11 to de bug the house
Yeah, there are 10 types of people
People who understand binary, people who don’t understand binary, and people who realize the joke was in ternary all along.
It makes me think about how many country artists it takes to change a light bulb…
Six. One to change the bulb while the other five sing about how good the old one was.
For the d) answer:
(On my work laptop)
I don’t remember, that was a long time ago, but I think the answer must have been B., considering the rest of the game.
Yes, I played the game in 1987.
Yes, I’m old.
My uncle had it on his computer. I redid that quiz a bunch of times because the older you seemed, the more of the first lady’s pixels were visible! I remember there being at least 50 pixels …
My favorite question was " what happened at the bay of pigs" the correct answer was “a big mistake”
That was LSL3
I remember having a lot of trouble with those questions - not so much because I was underage, but because I didn’t grow up with US pop culture and sports.
The real answer is management needs atleast 3-5 meetings to first discuss this with 10 developers 10 upstream developers 10 downstreams developers and business team for all. And after we spent 2-4 weeks of all this a lone developer who’s been saying we just screw it in gets the approval to do exactly that
Plus several meetings with the customer to see if there is budget for an upgrade, discuss if they want if brighter, bigger or more efficient, and writing it down in specifications so nobody can say they needed it to be bigger the moment you walk in with the new bulb. Also maybe schedule a few demo lighting sessions to get everyone up to speed and a bit of training for the light switch operator to handle this new responsibility.
Once it goes through CAB of course
“If a programmer can change a lightbulb in 5 minutes, 5 programmers can change a ligthbulb in 1.”
So if a couple can have a baby in 9 months, 9 couples can have a baby in a month?
We will deliver one baby per month, yes.
Spoken like a true sales person
Assuming no communication overhead, yes.
No, you can have 9 babies in 9 months, but you won’t have 1 baby in 1 month.
You can if you staggered them in anticipation of requirements!
Create one baby in 9 months. Without loss of generality, assume a spherical baby. Every following month, use Banach-Tarski to turn one baby into two. Repeat exponentially for 2^n babies in month n+9.
Can you put that into big O notation?
Possible plot twist: there is no correct answer and to pass this age check you should skip this one.
It’s actually the opposite (this one is only there for entertainment so all the answers are counted as correct), but good guess! 😁
Do not worry. Alt-X bypasses the question.
Which is unnecessary for this particular one, since it’s one of the ones where all of the answers are considered correct 😁
They really tried hard to keep kids out of the game!!1! :D
They did on plenty of the other questions, but I for one am happy that they failed as I loved the game as a 7yo 😄
How many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
a. None, it’s a hardware problem.
b. None, programmers can’t fit in light bulbs.
c. 100. One to hold the bulb and 99 to debug the house.
d. None so far, but they’ll get to it Real Soon Now.
All answers are correct.
I blame management for the existence of option d
1, but it takes 12 hours because of the amount of documentation they need to do
Not in 1987.
e. All of the above
3, one product manager, one scrum master and one programmer.
My favourite light bulb joke is:
How many Morriseys does it take to change a light bulb? None, because there is a light and it never goes out.
Every other light bulb joke i hear, the number is arbitrary - it could be 10/100/1000 with no loss to the joke. But “none” and for that reason is the only possible correct answer to that joke.
How many Grateful Dead fans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None. They’ll just wait for it to burn out and then follow it around for 40 years.
How many Dragonball characters does it take to change a lightbulb?
One but it takes 30 episodes.
How many Mexicans does it take to change a lightbulb?
Just Juan.
How many drummers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two: one to hold the bulb and one to drink until the room spins.
How many guitar players does it take to change a lightbulb?
Also two: one to change the bulb and one to say “I can do that too”.
How many South Americans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A Brazilian
