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Are users trying to make developers angry?

Have you ever felt like users are intentionally trying to piss you off? This feeling has happened to me more than once. It isn't a rare occurance for my team to get angry emails from our users saying something doesn't work, only for us to point out something simple that

The Solo Programmer and the Insidious Promise of the Ivory Tower

Hello, my name is Matt, and I was a solo programmer for five years. That sounds like it ought to be the greatest thing in the world, if you take it at face value. As I am inclined to be an introvert [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/ever-feel-like-an-impostor-good/], it sure sounded

You Are Not As Smart As You Think You Are

> I beseech you, [gentlemen], consider the possibility that you are mistaken [http://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell]. > -Oliver Cromwell I'd like to tell you a story. When I was first hired at my current job, I was given a task: build a search engine for our company intranet.

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