Secret life of coders

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Secret life of coders

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Post by Kargath » Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:34 pm

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0 ... 326,00.htm

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Post by The Missing Link » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:20 am

You, my friend, have no idea. ;)

I write small tidbits in my code all the time. And, surprise, it's commented and documented too.

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Post by Glyph Phoenix » Sun Jun 19, 2005 3:02 pm

I think it's sad that news article seems to take that last comment seriously. Gah.

They don't seem to understand that gratitious cursing is an integral part of programming.

And also, we're geeks. You actually expect us to not make Monty Python and Lord of the Rings references in our poorly designed code? Dream on. We named an entire language after Monty Python.

Also, MS FTP servers do have a reputation for being loads of crap compared to other servers. Hell, I recall reading an article where a Microsoft server solutions site was actually shut down because they were running the site on a Linux server.

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Post by Kargath » Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:37 am

Originally posted by Glyph Phoenix:
I think it's sad that news article seems to take that last comment seriously. Gah.

They don't seem to understand that gratitious cursing is an integral part of programming.

And also, we're geeks. You actually expect us to not make Monty Python and Lord of the Rings references in our poorly designed code? Dream on. We named an entire language after Monty Python.

Also, MS FTP servers do have a reputation for being loads of crap compared to other servers. Hell, I recall reading an article where a Microsoft server solutions site was actually shut down because they were running the site on a Linux server.
Hotmail is run off Linux boxes. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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