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Jan 2011

All In The Config

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"From the first minute of the first hour of the first day of my job," Aaron writes, "I knew I had an epic WTF on my hands."

"I spent a while writing up a 1,600-word long description of this system, only to realize it wasn’t nearly enough. So I kept going. 1,950 words… still not enough. 2,300 words… barely scratching the surface.