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Your rarity is another man's frequency. Defining all programming in terms of long drawn out creative endeavours isn't very useful, which is the point I was making to begin with.


The quote doesn’t say that no programming tasks can be done in blocks of an hour, but rather that programming well cannot.


The quote says "generally prefer". What programmer generally prefers a half day to complete a sub-hour task?


Yes, both of you only contributed anecdotes and no data. (Neither did I)




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