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5 things programmers preach but don’t practice

I’m having a frustrating day of merge hell. Just to blow off some steam while specs run, here are some things that, in my experience, are a lot more common in theory than in execution in proprietary software development projects. At … Continue reading

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There is no such thing as a good field programmer

There is probably some rule of blogging which says that once you start making war analogies you’ve jumped the shark. With that risk acknowledged, I’d like to present a quote: The influence one man can have on thousands is a … Continue reading

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