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		contingencies on March 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teach kids to farm, not code. Congratulations! You have turned a discussion of the relative merits of learning a critical and historic human discipline in to a rant against virtual machines (illogical, I might add: they are great tools for managing complexity) and the structure of programming organizations.

dschiptsov on March 5, 2013 [–]

Didn't mean it. The statement that farming requires much more knowledge than coding triggered all this.)

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