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Well, I for one will be taking two tylenol daily starting to day. You know, to dull the existential angst.


I had the uncanny feeling I'd read this before... And then I realized I had! This article is from April 8th, 2012.


Reading this article reminded me of this post from Myles Recny:

http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/be-nice-to-programmers

Both that article and this one resonated with me on a certain level. Software development can be such a hypercritical field, involving so much self-recrimination.

That, in turn, reminds me of Alan Cooper's characterization of Homo Logicus in The Inmates Are Running The Asylum. Programmers are forced to look at all possibilities, and are trained to point out even extremely unlikely cases. This emphasis on edge-cases is confusing and counter-intuitive to non-programmers, who tend to think in terms of probable cases.

Perhaps too much concentrated attention on possible cases is turning us all sour.


is the table of contents ordering out of whack for everyone? when I scroll down the page, the right hand table of contents jumps typography->grid system->code->tables, even though the menu is laid out as typography->code->grid system->tables...


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