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Re:Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opene... by mistermann on Friday August 24, 2012 @02:45AM (#4426528)
Interesting. One thing that's always jumped out at me over the years, for no particular reason, is the sometimes horrendous handwriting (and sometimes even spelling) of extremely skilled engineers. Sometimes their writing looks like they are holding the pencil vertically in their hand with 4 fingers wrapped around it.
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Re:Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opene... by krautsourced on Friday August 24, 2012 @03:07AM (#4426561)
It's because as a programmer you barely do write anything by hand any more these days. I notice it myself, I'm now faster at typing than (hand)writing, and I wrote shitloads during my times at the uni.
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Re:Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opene... by kamaal on Friday August 24, 2012 @06:05AM (#4426957)
I do a lot of planning on my diary so I write quite a bit.

Also many programmers like working out problems on paper first before firing up the editor.

We do a lot of writing but of a different kind. We don't write essays, stories and records of historical events. But we definitely scribble a lot of symbol manipulation stuff.

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Re:Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opene... by S_A_P on Friday August 24, 2012 @09:48AM (#4427518)
Too true! If I have to write anything in cursive other than my signature(which has now become a symbol more than my name in cursive) I am completely flummoxed as to how to do it.
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Re:Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opene... by gliese1337 on Friday August 24, 2012 @12:32PM (#4428293) 

    my signature(which has now become a symbol more than my name in cursive)
True story- when my sister first moved to France, the first time she had to sign anything official, she was told "no, not your name, your signature". So she made up a new scribbly symbol just for that purpose.
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Re:Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opene... by s_kilk on Friday August 24, 2012 @08:25AM (#4427250)
Same for Doctors. My theory is that they have much bigger things to worry about than the state of their own hand-writing.
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