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Oh yeah, but this works two ways!
As a developer I've sometimes been kept from the bigger picture.
For some reason, people sometimes see us as idiots who wouldn't get it anyway.
Probably because we're to up in our technology.
Now that I'm a manager myself I always try to get a tour of the factory (if applicable) for me and the programmer(s).
If it's not a factory I at least try to explain the overall process, like "we get document A in an email and after that they open our software and do X and Y so at the end a price is emailed back to the customer".
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A small part of my job is to provide support for customers. I avoid get into implementation details, but I don't shy away from trying to explain, at a high level, why things work do they (or don't) either. I never try to sound condescending however.
I think most customers appreciate the fact that I don't treat them like idiots. At the same time, I don't "go deep" as I would with my developer coworkers.
It's a fine line.
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Same!
I even have a customer who asks me about it and says he appreciates that I take the time to explain it to him in simple terms 
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There are a lot of confusion between job titles and what they should actually do.
The Analyst Programmer will/should be responsible of the technical aspect on how to implement what the business analyst wants (after talking to the clients... )
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I've been a solo developer in a small company for almost 25 years and I've hardly ever worked from 'specs'. An exception was the last web application that just rolled out a few months ago where the customer provided spreadsheets (order sheets) and said 'Make it look like this.' They also provided sample invoices and reports.
The project took around 9 months to 'complete' and so far (knock on wood) has been the best product rollout that I've ever been a part of. I attribute that mostly to the customer knowing exactly what they wanted and working from sample output/reports. We also had weekly teams meetings during development which I hated, but were essential.
Typically, our customers/end users have very little input into our product's designs. For the most part, our products are very niche and everyone on the team has > 20 years experience working either directly or indirectly in that niche. Customers rely entirely on us to make something that works. If they come up with a good idea, we steal it then charge them for it! 
For the most part, there are no specs...we just make it up as we go.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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xkcd: University Commas[^]
Two questions:- Any UNICODE experts here?
- If there are, are there different code points for each type of comma?
This is what occurs to you when you wake up with the start of a migraine and you are working "chemically enhanced".
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: are there different code points for each type of comma?
Gnome characters says no. 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma chameleon
You come and go, you come and go
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Software Zen: delete this;
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Wow, bit of a stretch. Nice try though
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You seem to be a Comma Chameleon.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Comma Police, arrest this man ...
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Any UNICODE experts here?
Dunno if I'm an expert, but I do know the difference between UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, etc. and what a code page is actually used for (for non-Unicode).
Gary Wheeler wrote: If there are, are there different code points for each type of comma?
If it's a different glyph it's always a different code point. An easy way to verify this is to copy and paste any text you want into a text file, save it as Unicode, and inspect the text file in a hex editor.
Edit: Just read the comic after writing this  , he's using the same comma for the comic strip. He's just being silly with all the crap we go through to not agree on stuff.
Jeremy Falcon
modified yesterday.
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A short search through Unicode code chart shows Arabic comma, reversed comma, medieval comma, ideographic comma, Georgian comma, Ehtiopic comma, and so on.
Sadly there is no Oxford comma
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A fact (nowhere near as funny as your post):
In Modern Greek ";" is a question mark! I do believe it does have its own codepoint.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Is the CCC too difficult - not even a wild guess makes me think no one is reading it.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I (think I) have the first two letters. The rest nothing.
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Thanks for additional clue! I think the answer is 'respite' (highlight text with mouse to read the suggested answer).
I admit that I used a list which sorts words by word length to help, but that would not have helped without the first two letters
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I'd say you have it. Jump in!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Thirty years ago I would probably have got it, but these days my brain is so full of rubbish ...
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He didn't give you the first two letters though
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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NO, but I only just got round to seeing it (hearing aids for the first time today, and they are driving me round the bend...)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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MOT yesterday, hearing aids today - what next ? 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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