Well said.

From my own sometimes painful experience, I am well aware of how allegories, metaphors and parallels can strengthen a point I am trying to make, or how they can take on a life of their own and muddle the message.

I appreciate your candor.

Moving on...


>>As one who has bought numerous frameworks for numerous languages I have to say that a framework purchase is a no-brainer, unless you love typing a LOT, debugging the same things over and over again, and doing the same things over and over again and, oh, being penny wise and pound foolish.
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>>As for the prostitutes, Dragan, I beg to differ on the last premise of "we get paid for doing what we love to do." I've know a few prostitutes (not in a "professional" manner, mind you) and ALL of them told me that it is the most humiliating, de-humanizing, ugly and dirty occupation, which they wouldn't wish on anyone.
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>As it goes with parallels, they tend to keep the same distance to infinity.
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>And in what you say there's more truth than I can imagine - which I actually can't, having had no contact with them whatsoever (well, AFAIK), firmly believing that if I can't do it with a willing partner, I don't deserve it. IOW, I agreed with this in advance. The word was used more in the sense where "we're doing it for money" doesn't put us into any different position than them - and the "liking it" part was probably just an assumption, based on, as I said, no direct knowledge. The parallel within their work and our work, again, keeps its distance: we're supposedly both in it because we like it (I like programming, and it's assumed that everyone likes sex), but then quite often we don't even have to see our customers, and we get much more respect (well, not in Serbia, where I was when I coined the phrase; here, yes).
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>There were moments when I had some doubts over the morality of what I am doing. Should I have not left the training mode enabled - the user may have used it to have a parallel set of books. Should I consider that telemarketing company at all? Are these other guys just crooks or well respected (i.e. rich) crooks? So far so good, even when I was forced into some dubious things (dubious in my mind), they petered out.
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>So, pass my apologies to the sex workers - it was only my wishful thinking that they may like what they do and suffer an occasional bad user like we do. It must be a nightmare, something that most people enjoy, one has to do for money, with partner they don't have much choice about, and mostly having to hand the bulk of the profit to whoever is exploiting them.