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I'm sure.

I've seen a few programmers who know what they're doing. Mostly, they don't trust anyone to know what they're doing (even themselves). The rest are really good at making functional programs; that doesn't mean they're any good at programming. At all.

One day, I'd like to see a programming language that makes viable programs less of a pile of instrumentation cruft. The problem is you'd have to hardcode all the boilerplate, and then someone would figure out a variation and your programming language would be useless.

Ostensibly, good code involves a lot of interfaces, abstract classes, factories, and builders just to get started; and in languages like C#, you can skip the piles of plug-in loading code and pointer management by using reflection to tell it to load all modules in some path, read some attribute from all of the classes that expose a certain interface, and expose some information to the user which leads to a user interaction that magically shuffles data through the right code (which is, all in all, three lines of code). In some fantasy, we could repeat that whole thing with the "define all these standard GoF patterns" boilerplate and get pages and pages of garbage off the screen.

In reality, all of that is necessary; sometimes it's a mess and also broken; and a lot of programmers assert that "real programmers" don't need all those fancy design patterns in the same way that "real athletes" don't need water and should just toughen up by training in the sun on 101 degree days with only a wet towel to wipe their heads.

If you got five people together who actually knew what they were doing, they'd be the most powerful programming team in the universe. They'd also probably be agile, instead of "our manager says we're agile and so we're not allowed to make design documents or do any planning."

Usually propylene glycol, if you've got the good stuff. Frequently acetylamides that break down into diacetylamides, which causes popcorn lung over long-term, extreme exposure. Aldehydes can also form into formaldehyde if you gunk up the mechanism and cause localized hot spots.

The stuff dissolves in air to a less-than-toxic (LC0) dose, and is known-harmless. The ingredients are often published, and almost always well-known. The amount of douchebaggery is readily measurable by how big and gaudy the vaping rod is, ranging from a discrete cigarette-like device to a fat, ornate miniature hookah; you can pick out the inverse by identifying who is smoking motherfucking dragons, since they're usually well-balanced individuals with improved judgment over the baseline population.

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( Amusing blog. Another good one is this:

http://www.stilldrinking.org/p... )

http://www.stilldrinking.org/c...

( Amusing blog. Another good one is this:

http://www.stilldrinking.org/p... )

Markup fail! :) The line about teaching was supposed to be a joke, but I can't remember it now. The link's better anyway ;)

http://www.stilldrinking.org/p...

http://stilldrinking.org/progr... Programing sucks