▲ 45 ▼ The art of the sacrificial 'duck' in programming projects (rachelbythebay.com) submitted 2 years ago by morg@zorg.social to c/programming@programming.dev 4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] monotremata@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) The only real objection I have to this as a term is that it's too easy to confuse with "rubber ducking": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago* My dad tells a similar story of an offshore oilrig person giving a tour to some C-Suite type people. His alarm goes off, and he pauses the tour to throw an oily rag on the floor. 5 minutes later the rig supervisor person steps out of their office, looks around, shouts about oily rags and health&safety risks, then goes back into their office. With a similar "punchline" about giving the supervisor something obvious to complain about So, perhaps call it an "oily rag"? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago* My dad tells a similar story of an offshore oilrig person giving a tour to some C-Suite type people. His alarm goes off, and he pauses the tour to throw an oily rag on the floor. 5 minutes later the rig supervisor person steps out of their office, looks around, shouts about oily rags and health&safety risks, then goes back into their office. With a similar "punchline" about giving the supervisor something obvious to complain about So, perhaps call it an "oily rag"? permalink fedilink source parent