A young man was walking along in the forest, when he heard a muffled voice crying for help from behind a log. he leaned over to see a frog sitting in the mud. the frog looked up at him and said, "i'm actually a beautiful princess, and if you kiss me, i'll transform back into my true self, and be yours for eternity." silently, the man scooped up the frog and continued on his walk. a minute or two later, the frog piped up again, "hey, buddy, maybe you didn't hear me i said, if you kiss me, i'll turn into a princess. what are you waiting for?" annoyed, the man stuffed the frog into his coat pocket. shocked, the frog yelled from inside the man's pocket, "what the hell? i'm a princess! all you have to do is kiss me!" opening his pocket and peering in, the man said, "listen -- i'm a software engineer. i don't have time for a girlfriend. but a talking frog is kind of cool."
Client: “our next requirement, and this is something big you know, we need an elephant” it team: but why don’t you adjust with a buffalo, even it is big…. and black?” client: no, we need an elephant only, let me explain our current process. (client explains for an hour) it team: fine, i understand your requirement. but our system supports only a buffalo… client: we need only an elephant! it team: ok, let me see if i can customize it for you requirements are taken as follows: client wants a big black four legged animal, long tail, less hair. having trunk is mandatory. the same was documented, signed off and sent to offshore for development! at the offshore development centre, design/development – based on requirement all features are supported in base product (as buffalo), for trunk alone a separate customization is done. finally the customization is shown to client: and the client faints! and the best add on to this joke is: programmers happily passed off the requirements as above, but to add to that, testers completed their test case as follows: description requirements final delivery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- big animal x x black in color x x four legged x x long tail x x less hair x x trunk x x our value add gives milk!!
A physicist, an engineer and a programmer were in a car driving over a steep alpine pass when the brakes failed. the car was getting faster and faster, they were struggling to get round the corners and once or twice only the feeble crash barrier saved them from crashing down the side of the mountain. they were sure they were all going to die, when suddenly they spotted an escape lane. they pulled into the escape lane, and came safely to a halt. the physicist said “we need to model the friction in the brake pads and the resultant temperature rise, see if we can work out why they failed”. the engineer said “i think i’ve got a few spanners in the back. i’ll take a look and see if i can work out what’s wrong”. the programmer said “why don’t we get going again and see if it’s reproducible?”
There are two types of people in this world : those who understand recursion and those who don’t understand that there are two types of people in this world.