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He is. Later in the article he explains a task he did during the working day to his wife. It seemed like his employer uses some sort of custom tableview control
by mike_hearn 3y ago
He is. Later in the article he explains a task he did during the working day to his wife. It seemed like his employer uses some sort of custom tableview control, or he was working on a business report. Honestly it sounded like the bigger threat to that particular task was someone finding an open source library that did it already, but it illustrated the point and the story was nicely written.
- wkipling 3y agoYeah there's lot's of people in this thread who didn't read the full article and the conclusion the Author comes to.
- apersona 3y agoI saw someone say they stopped reading after this line: > At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, and, when thinking failed, tried Googling. ...and I don't fault them for doing so and making the assumption that the author is not an experienced coder
- dragonwriter 3y agoThe author is very obviously the caliber of writer you'd expect for someone who regularly writes prose for the New Yorker and the Atlantic. And also, apparently, the level of programmer you'd expect of someone who regularly writes prose for the New Yorker and the Atlantic.