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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Programmers as a whole tend not to be the best at the various social skills. I tend to take the approach of it's ok to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.
Yes, I agree that it would be a good thing if, like Charlie, the new guy would check this specific forum at least a few times a week. On the other hand, I've seen a lot of programmers come into a situation and simply arbitrarily set things up the way they want them without thinking how anyone else feels about it. It just doesn't occur to them that someone might object. Unfortunately, the ability to deal with customers without pissing them off is kind of rare in the programming community. That's why most companies don't let programmers talk to customers.  |
And that's one of those nice reasons for the end product to have no relationship with the things the customer really wanted (programmer who has talked to the customer here
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