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Post #389,209 by a6l6e6x 5/5/14 9:38:01 PM Reply	Loved it! Came so close to describing a situation I was part of. A handful of us were writing "back-end" C++ code interfacing SQL Server and feeding Visual Basic apps. The DBA changed some SQL Server option and broke all our code. She had no fucking idea of the consequences of her change. Alex ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.Â -- Isaac Asimov
Post #389,225 by crazy 5/6/14 9:58:49 AM Reply	Ah, dbas, the shallow end of the programming gene pool http://forum.iwethey...iwt?postid=196205
Post #389,227 by a6l6e6x 5/6/14 11:12:53 AM Reply	Well said! And the link is a blast from the past. Alex ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.Â -- Isaac Asimov

IRLRPD - (drook) - (12) - May 2, 2014, 02:26:09 PM EDT

I had m read that - (crazy) - May 2, 2014, 03:52:59 PM EDT

Excellent find! I'm sending it to my whole team at work. -NT - (hnick) - May 2, 2014, 04:51:39 PM EDT

I see a semi colon anwhere near their face, Im leaving -NT - (boxley) - (1) - May 2, 2014, 06:47:33 PM EDT

Two girls, one sentence -NT - (drook) - May 2, 2014, 07:13:50 PM EDT

Excellent. Thanks. -NT - (Another Scott) - May 2, 2014, 07:49:23 PM EDT

Hey.. I'm the only one here who Hasn't immersed...submerged? - (Ashton) - (2) - May 2, 2014, 11:50:53 PM EDT

I think you get this, but he wasn't exaggerating *at all* - (drook) - (1) - May 3, 2014, 08:17:17 AM EDT

Believed that.. that's why it's so portentous, as in :-/ - (Ashton) - May 6, 2014, 02:20:18 AM EDT

Loved it! - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - May 5, 2014, 09:38:01 PM EDT

Ah, dbas, the shallow end of the programming gene pool - (crazy) - (1) - May 6, 2014, 09:58:49 AM EDT

Well said! - (a6l6e6x) - May 6, 2014, 11:12:53 AM EDT

Re: IRLRPD - (folkert) - May 6, 2014, 08:36:49 AM EDT

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