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Of Musicians And Programmers

By Bryan Woods | January 21, 2009

Jeff Atwood posed the age-old question again today on his blog, and I thought it was worth a little more introspection as someone who was (is?) a musician first, programmer second.
The question: “Why are so many programmers musicians?” (Note: the question is coming from a programmer, not a musician, which is the first notable point. [...]

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Why I write software (and why I think you should too)

By Bryan Woods | December 2, 2008

Just as you can split the world between smokers and non-smokers, or perhaps survivors and non-survivors, or people who have jumped out of a plane and those who have not, etc, it is possible to split the internet-dwelling public into two distinct groups:
Those who write software and those who complain incessantly about the software others [...]

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