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>> Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.[0]

Between that quote and "You can't fix stupid" I always choose the one about circus.

*nix fanboys were totes fine with wget and ls being an aliases in PowerShell for years but when they found out what PS is coming to Linux they made a biggest stink. It didn't even mattered what 99.999% of the scripts which utilized that call were the simple 'get file' and nothing more.

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rick_Cook#The_Wizardry_Compile...

parent justsomehnguy 6 months ago

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