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• Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines
  “Master programmer, consider this pipeline. Implemented in pure C, would it not span ten thousand lines?”

  The programmer muttered through his beard… finally he agreed that it was so.

  “And how many hours would you require to implement and debug that C program?”

  “Many,” admitted the visiting programmer. “But only a fool would spend the time to do that when so many more worthy tasks await him.”

  “And who better understands the Unix-nature?” Master Foo asked. “Is it he who writes the ten thousand lines, or he who, perceiving the emptiness of the task, gains merit by not coding?”

  Upon hearing this, the programmer was enlightened.

  
  
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  Behaviour driven infrastructure through Cucumber
  
  
  
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  tell cucumber stories about nagios -- this may or may not change my life
  
  
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  Python main() functions
  
  
  
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  A NEW LOOK AT TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT (PDF)
  
  
  Dave Astels on what test-driven development really means. Hint: it has nothing to do with achieving 80% unit test coverage ;-)
  
  
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  Still Life with Banquet - 2010 01SJ Biennial
  
  
  
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• 10 IT management tips from Etsy CTO Chad Dickerson | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com
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• Etsy - 50 Best Websites 2010 - TIME
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• WTF, D&D!?
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• Mad Thinker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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• A comparison of manual washing up with a domestic dishwasher
  "The average UK water consumption to wash up these 140 items or 12 place settings by hand is 63 litres or 9 medium-sized bowls of still water. Those who wash all or part under running water could be using more than 150 litres. This additional water is used for pre-soaking before washing and/or rinsing after washing. User habits very widely, some change the bowl of water frequently and some keep the same dirty water. The water consumption for a dishwasher is typically less than 20 litres and often less than 15 litres. In 2006 90% of full size dishwashers use 18 litres or less for some or all programmes. Based on the figure of 63 litres, washing the same load by hand uses at least three times more water than a dishwashing appliance. It could be argued that hand washing 12 place settings in one session is not realistic, but there is no survey information about what people actually do at home."
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• Water and energy consumptions of dishwashers and washing machines: An analysis of efficiencies to determine the possible need and options for a water efficiency label for wet white goods (PDF)
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• Dishwashing and Water Conservation: An Opportunity for Environmental Education
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• Does Using a Dishwasher Actually Decrease Water Use? | One Green Generation
  dishwashers use less water and power than washing dishes by hand
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• why GNU grep is fast
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• Pake: PHP project build system « Alexey Zakhlestins blog
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