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Re:Is There Any Room for the Not-Passionate Developer? by Gigablah on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @10:44AM (#12210300)
There's certainly something to be gleamed here about programmers and their reluctance to context switch, and the desire for a one unified standard.

However, English isn't a programming language.

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Re:Is There Any Room for the Not-Passionate Developer? by blowski on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @11:20AM (#12210577)
A more light-hearted comment on what I'm saying would be Eddie Izzard discussing the word 'awesome':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rYT0YvQ3hs

By devaluing the word, when we hear people talking about 'abuse' we will assume they're just whinging.

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