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Start with a $50,000 grant, hold a fundraiser, lose $47,000
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Management-speak: Focus
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Hey, you look Chinese, we have a class for people like you
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When you agree to write to a particular length, make sure your content is actually that length
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Why are developer tools orange?
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Things other people have written that have amused me, Episode 2
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Thanks for identifying the good programmers for us
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Two-year-old as finite state machine
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