Comment by stray
10 years ago
Mistakes, rewrites, late nights, firefights, and deadlines.
Core dumps, memory leaks, hardware faults, and plain bad luck.
Big O, data flow, always learning -- or out you go.
Manager metrics, schedules hectic, methodology hegelian dialectic.
Taking the heat, feature creep, open office, uncomfortable seat.
Holy wars, revolving doors, carpal tunnel, all you can take? There's always more.
Fucking suits, random reboots, and the ever present "thousand language stare".
Oh yeah, pressure -- lots of pressure. And time, time, time.
Metric shitloads of time.
Time, man. You gotta do your fucking time.
This is the answer. The reason is because it is specifically "time spent with reality," which has a way of showing you what you don't know.
What is the "thousand language stare"?
It's what you see in many photos of men during or after a battle, they have an eerie look in their eyes, that they are looking through you not at you.
"The thousand-yard stare or two-thousand-yard stare is a phrase coined to describe the limp, blank, unfocused gaze of a battle-weary soldier."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-yard_stare
What is the "thousand language stare"?
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Read the question.
I wish I had more upvotes to give.
That was beautiful.
Lenny Bruce was not afraid
haha that was awesome