What real life bad habits has programming given you?
I temporize way too much in conversation. Things that anyone else would say as fact, I will still throw a “probably” or “perhaps” on, because I know there could always be that one edge case where a meteor strikes my neighborhood and I wouldn’t after all be able to make it out that day to Thanksgiving dinner.
So true. I am the disclaimer king (“Well, that should be true, unless…”), and I’m trying to be better about it. I find myself never committing to anything unless I am unequivocally convinced it will happen no matter what universal forces try to stop it.
Of course, I’m not sure if that’s actually derived from my profession, but it certainly rings true either way.
