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	<title>To Err is Human...</title>
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	<description>...it takes a computer to really mess things up.</description>
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		<title>Being a Better Programmer #3: Ahab and the White Whale Snippet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanerr.com/2008/08/19/being-a-better-programmer-3/</link>
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		<title>Quick Link</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ http://www.itmanagement.com/features/10-in-demand-it-skills-030508/
Anyone else feel like this site sucked on Microsoft&#8217;s tool a bit much? I mean, those skills are great, but most could be lumped together, and sure as hell .NET isn&#8217;t the highest demand IT skill (considering something like 80% of servers worldwide run on Unix based systems&#8230;)
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		<link>http://www.humanerr.com/2008/08/14/quick-link/</link>
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		<title>2 Reasons Why Freelancer is a Polite Term For &#8220;Filthy Merc&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a response to the article 101 Reasons Why Freelancers Do it Better.
&#8220;Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you&#8217;re finished. You&#8217;re a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already. &#8221; -Tommy Shaw

The general &#8220;me me me&#8221; of the article.
The overcharged, late, and general lack [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanerr.com/2008/07/23/2-reasons-why-freelancer-is-a-polite-term-for-filthy-merc/</link>
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		<title>What We Code Is Not Our Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where does the idea end and the program begin?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanerr.com/2008/07/19/what-we-code-is-not-our-program/</link>
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		<title>Being a Better Programmer #2: Don&#8217;t Be a Missionary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've spoken a great deal thus far about the importance of knowing when black and white thinking is helpful and when it's harmful. For most people, it's easy to make this distinction. Doctors tend to learn what procedures are there for safety and which are there for to protect the higher ups. Police officers know that if they wrote tickets for every offense they saw, they'd be busy as hell and pissing off the people instead of protecting them. Music professors teach the rules of music and then teach the student to ignore them. Yet developers... we are very rigid. There's a right and wrong way to do everything. This thinking gets us very far, but there's a dark side to all this: evangelicalism. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanerr.com/2008/07/14/being-a-better-programmer-2/</link>
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		<title>Web 2.0 and the Art of Bullsh*t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let's face it. Web 2.0 is a marketing ploy.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanerr.com/2008/07/10/web-20-and-the-art-of-bullsht/</link>
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		<title>Be a Better Programmer Series #1: Be a Writer.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this post I outline reasons why making yourself a better programmer includes being a writer. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanerr.com/2008/07/09/be-a-better-programmer-series-1-be-a-writer/</link>
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		<title>Mathematics and Computer Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The biggest complaint heard amongst a lot of computer science majors is how little most of our math education effects our programming education. While by the end of the major, most people tend to see the light, there are still a few who claim that, "Blah blah class isn't worth it." You know what, though, they're missing the point. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanerr.com/2008/07/07/mathematics-and-computer-science/</link>
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		<title>What Creates a Thinker?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.&#8221; - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Or put more succinctly: 
&#8220;Common sense is not so common.&#8221; - Voltaire

Note: Oddly enough, as I was writing this article, I noticed that a commenter to this new site, Daniel, had a post which touched on some points I was about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanerr.com/2008/07/06/what-creates-a-thinker/</link>
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		<title>The Reality of Bad Programmers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's been a lot of discussion as of late surrounding what distinguishes a good programmer from a bad one. This is my analysis of these sorts of analyses. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanerr.com/2008/07/04/the-reality-of-bad-programmers/</link>
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