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Re:Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and cont... by ChuckNorris89 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:43PM (#35462080)
You forgot doctors and nurses.
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Re:Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and cont... by hotpathdev on Thursday April 06, 2023 @07:03AM (#35466720)
Now let's look back at the list provided: -Scientists -lawyers -engineers -artists -doctors -nurses

And compare it to programmers and writers. The non-programmer/non-writer world think programmers "just play on the computer" all day. So I think GP is spot on, non-programmers don't get how interrupting flow is catastrophic to what we do.

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Re:Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and cont... by Eugr on Thursday April 06, 2023 @11:33AM (#35469779)
The list is too long, really.
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