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		ck2 on Aug 26, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The story of round rectangles Sounds like a typical coder's week: 1. accomplish something pretty darn tricky to try to impress the boss/client 2. boss is only impressed for a split second before giving you a harder to accomplish task

blahedo on Aug 27, 2010 | [–]

Obligatory: http://www.xkcd.com/664/

megablast on Aug 26, 2010 | [–]

I remember a few times creating something incredibly clever, that I thought was not possible, and trying to explain this to my boss. Of course, not being technical, they had no idea what was so special.

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