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Children’s show “Sesame Street” famously ends each episode with a message along the lines of, “Today’s episode is brought to you by the letter ‘B’.”
The alphabet is the first thing that’s drilled into us when we’re learning our native language. Brenden’s co-worker definitely understands the alphabet. Their grasp of loops and conditionals on the other hand…
Keith received a ticket regarding a very large, very important, and very complex application, written in Perl. Keith’s first step was to scan the file for variables, so he could get a better sense of things he should look out for.
He found this:
When Darwin visited the Galapagos, he saw that the relative isolation of the islands had allowed species to evolve into forms that would never have happened on the mainland. This insight helped him to refine his theory of evolution by natural selection.
Roberto had a similar experience, when one of his co-workers went on vacation . This co-worker didn’t work on any of the regular teams, and spent all of their time working in isolation on projects no one else ever touched. Roberto found something certain to give even Darwin's finches nightmares.
Jul 13