Garbage collection, in a very real sense
By all means be careful what you invest in: whether you’re paying with your time or with your money. But thinking about the needs of your fellow man can reap rewards too: not just for your moral integrity.
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Steve Yegge on code’s worst enemy:
… This brings us to the second obviously-bad thing that can go wrong with code bases: copy and paste. It doesn’t take very long for programmers to learn this lesson the hard way. It’s not so much a rule you have to memorize as a scar you’re going to get [...]