Typing Looks Like Typing

From "This is Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer" — Jason Heeris, 2013. See the full comic at: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/60wx3z/this_is_why_you_shouldnt_interrupt_a_programmer/ The problem with typing, is that it just looks like typing no matter what kind of work you're doing. If you're not looking at the person's computer screen you assume low stakes are being played. clacking noises Pause. more clacking noises Longer pause, hand on chin. Hands back on keyboard one clack Pause. A person's view of work is constrained by what they've experienced. If they only know computers, and specifically work done with computers as email, chat, and spider solitaire then that is what they think everyone else does. Maybe not explicitly, but in the back of their mind, yes, their perception of what one does typing at a computer is very narrow. Three things only - email, chat, and the old reliable - solitaire game. "Hey, watcha' doin'?" I try to remember the fleeting…