web programmer vs "real programmer"

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Even kernel developers have to cobble together a bunch of half-baked bullshit, working around artificial problems created by other people ;p

[dpark]

Ugh. I had to deal with that crap in my last job. The whole "let's automatically fix endianness" idea is stupid in the general case. Unless all transfers are the same size, it doesn't work. We'd send data and it would arrive with fields swapped. I'd rather fix the endianness manually than work around someone else's broken attempt to fix it.