If the trials of the American frontier once chiseled out a heartier race of man, the close proximity of the fast food restaurant has now, perhaps, returned him to the obscurity of his folds.

John interprets modern America in the light of Darwin's Descent of Man.
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We can only measure it from the inside, because productivity looks different for each programmer — and each of us is only familiar enough with exactly one programmer (ourselves) to be able to recognize the clear indicators.

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