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Re:What's wrong with Software nowadays and how we can fix it by vetinari on Monday December 05, 2016 @08:32AM (#13105176)
The problem with computers (abstracting from accidental complexity) is, that they do what you tell them to do, not what you think you told them to do. You cannot somehow make an agreement or solve it, how it is solved with humans - by communicating. You must formulate your thought exactly.

And that's what most people have a problem with - except for some hard sciences, they never needed to formulate their thought that way.

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Re:What's wrong with Software nowadays and how we can fix it by sctb on Monday December 05, 2016 @03:21PM (#13109056)
But it is rude. An important part of a civil and substantive discussion is not personally insulting other users. Please don't do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:What's wrong with Software nowadays and how we can fix it by JoeAltmaier on Monday December 05, 2016 @08:54AM (#13105322)
You can engage in a dialog with humans. "What? Hey! Don't get mad! Let me explain!" Instead of just deleting all your files without recourse.
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