Programmer Humor

Call your mother, she'd love a chat.

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"1"

!! "True"

That’s a closure

Sounds like you should respond to that with a 400 Bad Request

The server cannot or will not process the request due to something that is perceived to be a client error (e.g., malformed request syntax, invalid request message framing, or deceptive request routing).

When you aren't feeling that async energy but you still get a callback.

Sounds like a problem in the question. "Yes" is a perfectly valid response to "Do you want eggs or cheese"?

I would ask my ex a boolean question and receive an tangential string.

Sometimes, (amongst friends who accept how thoroughly weird I am) I will actually say "XOR" when I want to make my intentions clear. It means that when they give the silly OR answer, I can jokingly chastise them for poor listening. The downside is that they relish the opportunity to give OR answers when I am not sufficiently specific in my question. I reap what I sow ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Personally, people tend to ask me XOR questions where the answer actually is "both"

"No sir/ma'am/other honorific

My job is to figure out what the error message means and how to repair it."

Sometimes.

In those cases, "there isn't a yes/no answer to your question because..."

I ask my jrs simple yes/no questions all the time.

Did you open a PR? Does it pass the CI pipeline? Did you write a test for scenario X?

I'm here to help you, but my time is unfortunately limited. If it takes half of our available time just to drag out of you where you're at we're all worse off for it.

I feel this. I've found that a good response in those circumstances is to say "sorry, can we put a pin in this? I feel like I don't have the capacity to properly process what you're telling me right now, so I'd rather we resume this conversation at a later point. Thanks for helping me figure out [bool question] though."

It's a useful response if one genuinely is interested to learn, but not at that moment.

Or maybe "yeah, right"

Yes.