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NeilCJames
on March 20, 2010
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The 5 Stages of Programmer Incompetence
I use 'singular they' because at some point 'one' started to connote pretentiousness. I don't see how Spivak pronouns solve that problem, but this off-topic sub-discussion has convinced me to go back to using 'one' (for disambiguation's sake).
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