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<node id="487767" title="Re^2: Programmers are weird" created="2005-08-30 10:16:34" updated="2005-08-30 06:16:34">
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&lt;p&gt;We have regularly scheduled dumps, sometimes several per day.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Numbers like 512 and 8192 look strangely familiar to us; we think kilo equals 1024.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We use the word "code" as if it were something, like water or sand, that can be put in a barrel.  We refer to "core" as place name, without an article, like "Newark".&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are horrified by bugs.  We openly speak of spending hours "debugging", and don't find it particularly indecorous.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We bounce our daemons, and fork our children.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="pmsig"&gt;&lt;div class="pmsig-439528"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;the lowliest monk&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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