Hard Boiled Eggs

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by edent • 3 years ago

53 7 3 years ago

zabzonk• 3 years ago

dutch food is ... strange. i used to do consulting work in the netherlands (which i like), and i never got used to it. i remember going to do some work at klm's headquaters and saying to the dutch guys i was with in the cafeteria "this is inedible". their dispirited response "we know".

JdeBP2• 3 years ago

I'm not convinced that a tale about pre-hard-boiled eggs, from the land of pre-sliced bread, processed cheese, and reconstituted ham, really implies that it is Dutch food that is strange. (-:

rubbsdecvik• 3 years ago

This reminds me of my intro to Computer Science class. My professor started us off with the Peanut Butter & Jelly Algorithm exercise [1]. I loved it. Nothing destroys your confidence quite like seeing a grown woman smash a peanut butter jar as hard as possible into an unopened loaf of bread.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=algorithm+for+making+a+peanut+butt...

graypegg• 3 years ago

I actually remember doing this in either grade 5 or 6, as part of a unit on procedural writing or something.

The entire class was divided into groups and tasked with making the teacher make a sandwich that we wanted. She just waited in front of a whole bunch of jams, mayo and cut up veggies and would “run” your paragraph to the letter. Everyone’s laughing while she’s spreading raspberry jam on lettuce but then the group realizes that’s the snack they’re getting.

That seriously still sticks with me almost 2 decades later!

jareklupinski• 3 years ago

makes me think of the apocryphal "Henry Ford Salt Test"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36176588

retrocryptid• 3 years ago

I was worried this was going to veer into just another "Garbage In, Garbage Out" exhortation. But it went full on "Remember your processing system may exist in a world into which you have limited visibility."

JdeBP2• 3 years ago

A tale about systems analysis from the days when systems analysis was a distinct discipline.

Hard Boiled Eggs

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