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I really don’t understand why braille is so expensive. I’m not even talking about multiline refreshable braille displays or whatever the new tech craze is. I just mean printing braille on a surface. The thing that makes braille the most useful. The Perkins braille writer is $800–not the new one that’s supposed to be modernized, the one I went to school with that’s existed since the ’50s. The new one is 2000 dollars! Or the LoganTech thing you can type on to make labels, that’s $1100! Why?

—@objectinspace

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“Of all the cruel tricks in software engineering, this has to be the cruelest. Most of us entered this field because the machines are so much more logical than people. And yet, even when you’re writing code explicitly intended for the machine, you’re still writing. For other people. Fallible, flawed, distracted human beings just like you. And that’s the truly difficult part.” https://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-its-just-writing/

—@codinghorror