November 1st, 2008 at 4:23PM

marco:

After writing this debug code:

throw new Exception('No hash cookie');

…I realized how incredibly strange it would sound to a non-programmer.

I think about things like this all the time.  Last week, our CEO heard me suggest that we ‘bounce the mongrels’ and he laughed a lot.  ”Pipe it to less” is pretty good, although my all time favorite is `man cat`.   

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    We programmers live in...different world from everyone else, that’s for sure.
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