Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

[John Abreau]

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Earlier I wrote:

> By that metric, I've never experienced a non-local network connection 
> that didn't suck. Not just on dialup, but on attbi, on many corporate 
> networks at various contract jobs where both offices were on T1 lines
> in separate cities.

On reflection, I neglected to mention that on attbi and the corporate 
networks, the latency/packet-loss thing was a minor annoyance. I found 
it mildly frustrating, but in comparison to the major aggravation of 
the various 56K dialups I've used, it's almost nonexistent.


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