Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

A blog link piqued my curiosity with such a paradoxical title. I know I know, links in blog entries in general are bad, however I found this short blog post really interesting and thought I share it.  The post goes into detail to back up the claim that Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 11:25 AM by AlanL

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# re: Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

Friday, August 26, 2005 2:33 PM by Jeff Atwood
Yes, but to be truly great you can't just fall back on Lazy and Dumb, You have to be Stupid, too!

# re: Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

Thursday, September 01, 2005 2:59 PM by Liam
Being both lazy and dumb helped solve the following problem: The following url does not open in the browser even though it is the correct url.

http://metro.digitalriver.com/servlet/controllerservlet?Action=DisplayPage&Locale=en_US&id=ProductDetailsPage&SiteID=metro&productID=35709100&Env=BASE

Here is an example of the same url as the one above but it works.

http://metro.digitalriver.com/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayPage&Locale=en_US&id=ProductDetailsPage&SiteID=metro&productID=35709100&Env=BASE

The problem is the url is case sensetive! This is proberbly one of the most unobvious things someone would check for.