Comment by arpa

While very idealistic and beautiful in a way as all manifests tend to be, we (along the author) tend to forget certain truths - the middle of the gaussian curve is fattest; all natural distributions follow that curve, and developers are no exception. Most of us, by definition, are mediocre. There's nothing that can be done about it. We should not shun, but rather embrace that. Not by deluding ourselves that if we follow some idealistic manifesto we somehow rise above our limited skills and minds. We will not. We will suck. Our tech will suck. Other peoples' tech will suck. There is no ideal that can be attained. This is not the profession of saints and Buddhas. But by knowing this, by accepting this, we can start working on raising the standard for mediocracy...