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Fri 01 Jan 2007Insider speaks in code about Silicon Valley blundersWired on Friday:As Scott Rosenberg notes in his fresh and captivating book Dreaming in Code, major software products drive much of the developed world's economy, and yet the results of development projects are often over budget, full of bugs and sometimes dangerously unusable."If architects built buildings the way programmers build programs, the first woodpecker to turn up would destroy all of civilisation," goes the old coder's joke.