tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30379986.post5609344456427271974..comments2023-12-10T07:55:27.177+00:00Comments on kenodoxia: Why feel guilty?James Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262258553733864003noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30379986.post-4739734847068690932008-10-15T19:18:00.000+01:002008-10-15T19:18:00.000+01:00Dawkins has written about this elsewhere, I rememb...Dawkins has written about this elsewhere, I remember coming across it a while back. I found it fascinating at the time and see myself doing the same thing with my favorite language, Perl. I make some of my own system scripts and find myself perfecting the indentations, changing the variable names to balance brevity and clarity, and obsessing over the comments and usage notes.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13431712675963840671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30379986.post-8543642497761067202008-10-15T10:24:00.000+01:002008-10-15T10:24:00.000+01:00Dawkins is spot on, both professional and amateur ...Dawkins is spot on, both professional and amateur programmers can find themselves writing software and reinventing wheels in their spare time because it solving problems can be compulsive, addictive, fraustrating, time consuming and results in a moment of pride and elation when you've cracked something - hence the popularity of soduko, crosswords, etc - coding combines the problem solving of crosswords and soduko with the engineering and tinkering involved in doing up a house, fixing up a car or motorbike, or renovating antiques, and like all of them can be a profession or a hobbie, or even both.Aaron Trevenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12931664748030936691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30379986.post-25502286422617701692008-10-15T08:54:00.000+01:002008-10-15T08:54:00.000+01:00I do not understand why you draw to make a line, c...I do not understand why you draw to make a line, claiming "they" are intellectuals (and thus different from the "others")<BR/><BR/>Such a distinction is simply bad in my opinion.shevyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09636171104216432368noreply@blogger.com