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Inventing bullshit under the guise of "common sense":0
Not assuming bullshit: 1

That's not really software though, is it? Think about the "ware" part, in means a vendable item.

That's the part before what the OP quoted. And all software is complex, or at least complex enough to have bugs.

Let's try a sanity reword and measure how much they added unnecessary(caveat: I'm prone to being overly verbose as well, and I won't do a great job)

Did I get it right?

Because just look at the boring, almost empty submission queue.

Really, you think professional 3d modelers don't know what a vertex is? Really?

I mean, I can get that they might not understand how vertices are processed by a rasterizer, but that's not what they are.

Please, facebook doesn't want more programmer registered users. They want you to do more free work for them.

But how do I imagine them? It's not from nowhere. It's from a recurring familiarity with what goes wrong in software development. I didn't just get a programming language down and suddenly grasp the idea of field interdependency, did I? I mean, admittedly, it was before I got a job in the field, but the first time you try to save something where X interferes with Y and it crashes your program teaches you the concept.

I'm just saying a few years ago, we had an awful lot of that variety of idiot.

Well, there's always the fact that people go to open it and are like "oh yeah, windows 8 and metro" and vomit uncontrollably for a few minutes.

This is the kind of thing people on the slashdot of yesteryear thought were impossible. Remember when people would post that Apple computers and/or Linux wasn't vulnerable like Windows?

Good times. I mean, I'm not trying to claim Windows has improved in security that it's no longer the easiest target or anything. Just that things have changed since that bygone era.

Well, I've always had the dream of a tool that has a natural language dialog with the the user.

You know the kind that asks the niggling questions us devs always have for "ideas" people. Like "Who's going to provide the map data for your store layout application?" And "Can this field be blank if that one isn't?" Or "Okay, what do you mean by 'shiny animation' exactly?"

I suspect such a thing could be done with a team of 30 AI experts and a huge machinery budget, and careful observation of how actual software projects are developed in the real world as some kind of training. And slightly better speech recognition.

If it helps, the quote came from a person who was ignored, then fought, then lost, but it commonly misattributed to someone much more successful.

The quote is so full of bluster, and bravado, you just can't take it seriously.

"If you're so smart why don't you buy into my elaborate conspiracy theory?" is the refrain of every paranoid nutjob. Now we(the US) have unresolved issues with the medical industry, but you're conflating that with a dismissal of the expertise on medical conditions that a medical doctorate and years of practice yield. I don't even need to resort to a "Not all doctors" type argument because, frankly, even basic diagnosis(much less prognosis) is almost certainly beyond your abilities, and entirely within theirs.

There's certainly enough of it to be a serious problem, but no, that's not what I mean.