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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft… The analyst or programmer has to examine documents with an eye at once skeptical and alert, snatching and collating tiny fragments of truth along the way… sources of information all have their own agendas, overtly or covertly pursued. He or she has handlers and superiors, many of whom don’t know what really goes on at the sharp end... It’s a lot like being a spy, or necromancer. You don’t get out much, and when you do it’s usually at night”
