Journal TheDanish's Journal: x 6

So how low is too low? Unpaid internship? Clerical work, which is obviously for girls? Or is my father right when he told me that boys are better than girls?

Your father was wrong.

I work in an office with five women. I'm the only man there--and I'm the secretary. But I also do the web design, tech support, database design, and "office automation", and if I had a degree I could probably convince them to give me computer-admin duties as well.

Our website was designed by a woman and coded by a man--and the

www.ask.com

Whenever you ask for input from your user, you need to be able to handle malformed inputs. Like it or not, computers are here, and the friendly ones are the only ones that will survive.

IMO, the biggest reason that LINUX hasn't taken over is because it's so god damn counter-inutitive on so many levels. Who in their right mind would guess "man" as the command to get help?

Any coder who doesn't want to take the time to handle errors had better not be coding for someone else--and if they are, the

Efe, when was the last time your keyboard was broken? Or you made a typo?

Furthermore, when was the last time I made a typo?

Think about that, and the way I'd be spending several hours on the phone with you begging and pleading for you to help me fix my computer, next time you suggest punishing idiots so harshly.

Spelling errors aren't always a sign of stupidity when typing goes. They're uncoordination and lack of practice.

Watch this, i'm gonna write this sentence without any proofereadin g at all.

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