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Comment Re:Unless (Score 2) 35

Thank god the West doesn't have any problem with the wealthy and well connected being treated any differently to anyone else. Just think what sort of societal problems would be occurring on a daily basis were that the case.

Comment Re:But they can't tell you (Score 1) 61

You're missing the point. From Wikipedia:
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The 1933 census, with design help and tabulation services provided by IBM through its German subsidiary, proved to be pivotal to the Nazis in their efforts to identify, isolate, and ultimately destroy the country's Jewish minority. Machine-tabulated census data greatly expanded the estimated number of Jews in Germany by identifying individuals with only one or a few Jewish ancestors. Previous estimates of 400,000 to 600,000 were abandoned for a new estimate of 2 million Jews in the nation of 65 million.[15]
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Don't think of Nazi activities as the time of the war (1939-45) only because their evil started long before then, and IBM were there to help.

Comment Re:If you need to ask, then for you the answer is (Score 1) 306

The perfect answer. And you can see for yourself, by a casual glance at Stack Overflow, that there's no shortage of new programmers without a clue in their head, and who expect people to solve problems that `give me the error` but who don't think it's important to include the actual error (as if there's only one possible error that could be provoked in that situation) or who demonstrate an utter lack of any resourcefulness, inquisitiveness or common sense.

Comment Re:From Scratch (Score 1) 452

I've seen this stated (sarcastically) before. How could it not be better a second time, when you've used the first one to try stuff out; seen what worked, what didn't. How could it be worse? Is the implication that it would be of exactly the same quality - no better, no worse?

In my experience this is bullshit. Is there any evidence whatsoever that disproves my anecdotal evidence and shows that professional developers don't learn from their mistakes and even make a bigger hash of it the second time around?

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