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What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As someone who spends time programming, I of course find myself in conversations with people who aren't as familiar with it. It doesn't happen all the time, but these discussions can lead to people coming up with some pretty wild misconceptions about what programming is and what programmers do.

I'm sure many of you have had similar experiences. So, I thought it would be interesting to ask.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Not programming per se but my sister thinks it's okay to have 300+ Chrome tabs open and just memorize the relative locations of them whenever she needs something. She's lucky she has a beefy computer.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I might be your sister 😐

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Stop that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I also leave every firefox tab open until I run out of RAM, at which point I use the "close tabs to left" button, moving some tabs that I still want to check out to the right beforehand. On firefox, one can simply use the list all tabs button to easily navigate or search through all tabs, so no memorization is needed (or just type the title of the document in the address bar and it will just switch to the tab if you have it open).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

check out tab stash extension

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

High spec machines are a curse 🤔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

This is horrifying lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I use the tree tab extension and just leave several hundred of tabs open and use the “open upon restart” option to open everything again. Luckily firefox has automatic tab unloading, which means it only uses about 6-8 GiB of RAM. Sadly the mobile app seems to cope less well with this method (I only have 3GB of RAM on it), it sometimes randomly crashes or refuses to open a new tab.