Also misses the edge case where sister was born on a leap day
Real talk: I wish more orgs place a high value on QA. A good QA team is worth it’s weight in gold and helps prevent a lot of stupid mistakes.
I wish I had a QA like this.
I design software, another guy builds it, then I test it. I seem to have a really good intuition for ferreting out the edgiest of edge cases and generating bugs. Pretty sure he hates my guts.
Project Managers and software designers are hated for their “designing”. The testing is always very welcome.
If you were 4 and now you are 44 then you might be an integer variable. If sister is also a variable, we don’t know when she was allocated. She might also be an integer constant in which case she’s arguably immortal.
Love this, 100% accurate. QA people are amazing, protect us from ourselves in so many ways we didn’t even think of.
It’s also the system administrator and SRE mindset.
But they still don’t think of all common user possibilities. I like this joke:
A software tester walks into a bar.
Runs into a bar.
Crawls into a bar.
Dances into a bar.
Flies into a bar.
Jumps into a bar.
And orders:
a beer.
2 beers.
0 beers.
99999999 beers.
a lizard in a beer glass.
-1 beer.
“qwertyuiop” beers.
Testing complete.
A real customer walks into the bar and asks where the bathroom is.
The bar goes up in flames.
Bathroom testing was not in scope.
This one’s on management.
I wish our test team was like that. Ours would respond with something like “How would I test this?”
Most of the best QA folks I’ve worked with had teenage children.
I imagine dealing with developers is similar.
Hey! My company just fired ours today!
Yes, I second this. QA has caught so many things that did not cross my mind, effectively saving everyone from many painful releases
I’m working on a gameboy emulator and the amount of edge cases you have to consider feels just like this lol.
clearly the answer is 22
well she is half my age and that is a well known time invariant so she is 22
Physicist: “assuming a spherical year …”
In a frictionless vacuum
All I wanted was a cubical day
TIMECUBE!
Id hate to experience a vaccum with friction.
Based on the only comparison we have, the OP is twice the age of their sister. so the sister is now 44/2, or 22. Easy problem.
Based on the only information we have, OPs sister is two. So the sister is 2. Trivial.
ML in action.
The programmer’s answer?
We don’t support that use case.
“Works for me and my sister.”
Then we’ll ship you and your sister.
And that’s how docker was born!
Either that or incest porn.
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I like this one better https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25851770
This all assumes all years are measured by the same orbit with no mixing and matching planets or space habitats.
The standard earth year had not been adopted system wide
I’m a programmer and my answer would be more like the tester’s answer.
But okay I also used to be a tester so this comment is probably invalid.
