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I was reading Joss Whedon<\/a>‘s interview from a not so old issue of Wizard Magazine<\/a> during a coding break. <\/p>\n Nice interview from this creator of Buffy. <\/p>\n Though I can’t remember finishing an episode of Buffy on TV, his works on Astonishing X-Men caught my attention. Including the thousand others who consider it as one of the best X-Men runs since Claremont\/Byrne and Morrison<\/a>\/Quietly.<\/p>\n It also made me go back to reading X-Men books after not reading them for… 12<\/span> or more years. <\/p>\n In one part of that interview he mentioned that comic books should not glorify killing and guns. Not killing makes Batman’s work even harder. It what makes Batman… Batman. <\/p>\n In fact, not killing The Joker backfired on him and the people close to him so many times.<\/p>\n But I believe Batman’s principles are not applicable to the programming world. <\/p>\n Well at least his no-kill policy isn’t.<\/p>\n Programmers should be given licenses to kill their users.<\/p>\n Right there. <\/p>\n Bang.<\/p>\n Ah wait… did I say users?<\/p>\n No, I mean bugs.<\/p>\n Kill bugs right then and there. Kill bugs like there’s no tomorrow.<\/p>\n Let them pass… ignore them… just jotting them in your bugtrack file is not enough.<\/p>\n You have to eliminate them on site.<\/p>\n No mercy.<\/p>\n Coders should instead take a page from the book of that character from that awe-inspiring manga Rurouni Kenshin<\/a> named Saitou.<\/p>\n Had Saitou been living in this era of computers… he would’ve become a great coder.<\/p>\n He would be the coder where all other coders will be measured. <\/p>\n Drones included.<\/p>\n (Although Rurouni Kenshin is a best selling manga by artist\/creator Nobuhiro Watsuki (later adopted as an anime show and commercially released in the US as Samurai X), Saitou by the way is based on a real person.)<\/p>\n Saito’s law… for those who are anime-and-manga-impaired is…<\/p>\n ‘Kill. Evil. Instantly.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \nLive by that code, coder.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n Now I’m hearing some coders whispering that if we kill all those bugs and make things perfect, the software industry which relies so much on subscriptions\/upgrades\/versions would not grow.<\/p>\n Not true. <\/p>\n … <\/p>\n Batman \ufffd DC comics<\/a>. Batman artwork above (and Poison Ivy artwork below) from Detective Comics 823<\/span>. <\/p>\n Guest artist Joe Benitez pencils. Benitez came from Top Cow<\/a> and is one of the co-creators of The Magdalena titles. He Illustrated Weapon Zero, some kick-arse Darkness Volume I issues and also the Wraithborn mini under the WildStorm imprint.) <\/p>\n\n
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