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One of my favorite topics is "friendlier computing". Whether it's the framework being friendlier to the developer or software being friendlier to the user, the point is that we are figuring out ways to make things easier on this side of the keyboard: the human side. One problem is that everyone I talk to about friendlier programming brings up the same objection: "Clippy". That's why I found the following comic so apropos.

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