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by hinkley 228 days ago
This is a terrible time to tell someone to find a movable object in another part of the org or elsewhere. :/

I always liked Shaw’s “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

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The unreasonable man also gets scolded and later fired for rocking the boat.

That adage only applies to people with resources and connections, not the average programmer who can't afford to lose a job.