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Is it just me, or did it end abruptly? Like they were going somewhere and stopped halfway.

• danso 7y ago
  The story ended on a classic technique of feature writing: an anecdote that both sums up the theme of the article and leaves a memorable impression of the subject: > “Does that sound about right?” I asked Mr. Workman. Pretty much, he responded. And then he started on a half-hour description of the latest “edge-case” mistake — the kind of flaw that only shows up in extreme circumstances — that he was trying to investigate and prove. I think the gist of the ending paragraph is to show both how complicated the investigation is, and how Mr. Workman was so intellectually devoted to the underlying technical issues that he'd spend 30 minutes describing an extreme edge case.