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Ignorance has real-world practical effects.

I was just sitting in a doctor surgery 45 minutes ago with an orthopaedic spine surgeon, who is one of the few who has worked out how to use software to his advantage. We were measuring a deformity that the previous surgeon has created. After 20 minutes of drawing lines and measurements all over this DICOM image, the following happened

Access Violation at address 0xGOFUCKYOURSELF

…so now I have to go back in two weeks while he can restart a plan for a difficult corrective surgery.

So if I hear a C++ programmer bibble babble on about, "but it's faster because I twiddle my bits" or some ignorant knob head bragging about how "programming is not mathematics because real world bullshit blah blah"

then I am going to fucking scream at their dumb stupid face.

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