[HN Gopher] Cardboard Cutout Dog (2003)
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       Cardboard Cutout Dog (2003)
        
       Author : foldor
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2021-06-16 11:45 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | setgree wrote:
       | > Jake served as our key code review expert for many years (Dog
       | Years that is) - but finally was lost to the organisation when he
       | starved to death during an especially complete checkout of the
       | Transaction Interchange Manager's Scheduling Algorithm.
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       | Should I take this sentence literally or is the checkout --or for
       | that matter, Jake's starvation -- metaphorical?
        
         | merciBien wrote:
         | I admire your empathy for the dog, I love animals too! From the
         | ironic tone of the rest of the article, I feel confident that
         | Jake the Labrador is fictional. "No animals were injured in the
         | making of this satire."
        
           | kwhitefoot wrote:
           | But what about the sex toys? Did the author really have a
           | dangling pointer? I think more research is required, after
           | all the field has advanced somewhat since that was written
        
       | foldor wrote:
       | See Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
        
         | djmips wrote:
         | Which came first? Although this technique must stretch back
         | into antiquity. It's kind of a trope in movies and books with
         | scientists / inventors. Watson sometimes was Sherlock's rubber
         | duck / cutout dog.
        
           | staplung wrote:
           | In fiction (and film particularly) these sorts of characters
           | are often a narrative device so that things can be explained
           | without needing an omniscient narrator.
        
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