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The Pragmatic Programmers (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Importance of Go to Considered Harmful

Go to considered harmful is a quote from an old CACM letter. The original title was something totally different and the editors changed it to go to considered harmful because it was like more sexy as a title. Humility is difficult in our environment, in our culture. It's probably of all the kind of human factorsy things that you need to be a good developer. You know, this part of our headlong rush into the shiny new thing is this kind of faith that I can do it better.

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