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2003-02-02

recurse

Paul Ford quotes Ullman, on coders endlessly feeling their way forward:

The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we’re doing. We’re good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else densely unaware of himself.

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war, good for, what is?

The BBC News site has gathered together a panel of experts to answer questions on the Iraqi war. They’re answering queries that range from straightforward but rarely answered (“Why isn’t Saddam called ‘Mr Hussein’?“) to the slightly tougher (“Can NOT going to war be unethical?“, answered by Julian Baggini, humanist moral philosopher).

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