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Score one for non-PC MCP-ism... :)
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Seriously, I agree with the main thrust of your post. It IS all too easy to splash a 'whazzat?' on PM or google before thinking. I've done it myself (no, really?). Disciplining yourself to sit and think things through is easily as difficult as contemplating the head of a pin without thinking of sexy ladies dancing. :)
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I was fortunate in my first pressure-cooker programming job (four years into my career) to be writing assembly language for a machine control system where programming errors would leave embarrassing scars on custom-machined pieces. Perhaps not a nuclear reactor, but screwing up made truly awful (and expensive!) sounds happen! <FONT COLOR=red><B>=8-O</B></FONT>
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I think that having a BUMS period, or, even better, a situation like the above, is a Really Good Thing (RGT!) in the career of a programmer. Most of the time. the damage is less critical, and I have to admit that having a few BUMS moments in my own life has helped make me think a bit more before hitting <ENTER> and having to reload the damn thing from zero. It's rarely that bad, thanks to our Bell Labs and Berkeley forefathers.
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Is it too easy to ask? Yes, but, having been homeless myself, I side with the guy by the side of the road:
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"<b>We all need a little help sometimes!</b>"
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<BR><EM>Don Wilde</EM><BR>
<FONT COLOR='#4F8EFF'>"<i>There's more than one level to any answer.</i>"</FONT>
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