whenever I tried to explain anything technical to her, her eyes would cross and the she’d get impatient, flustered, and frustrated.
I keep hearing this bullshit, both on HN and on other news sites. Do you really choose to spend your time such vacuous people? Or is it just that most explanations given are needlessly complex, so that programming and computers appear magical?
If you can't explain something properly, you probably don't fully understand it yourself.
But anyway, computers are hard. Let's go shopping!
Pure coincidence. I often look for definitions as a way of remembering certain keywords in text (sort of like taking mental notes).
The submission on reddit now has over 1200 upvotes which is crazy: it isn't that funny. Not to flog a dead horse, but the quality of that site really has gone down over the last two years or so.