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		throwaway892238 on Nov 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In the 1990s a piece of Germany’s air traffic cont... I think there's only two kinds of systems programmers: 1. The kind that build a system they think is really cool. 2. The kind that stay up at night, stressed over how frighteningly bad the system they've been forced to build/work on is.

cdegroot on Nov 10, 2022 [–]

Why not both? The "coolest" systems I've built definitely were the scariest to move to production...

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