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Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
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Mark Jason Dominus
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Fuckin' user interface design, I swear
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The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)
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I liked this simple calculus exercise
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It’s an age of marvels
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I would like a job writing Haskell
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Weirdos in the depression
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Seven books I keep close because I love them
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Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014)
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Anagram Scoring
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Software horror show: SAP Concur
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Why I like Java
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Pushing back against contract demands is scary but please try anyway
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Help me ask why you didn't just
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Why I never finish my Haskell programs
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Anagram Scoring
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“It is never a compiler error”
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Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to
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Mental illness, attention deficit disorder, and suffering
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A Git catastrophe cleaned up
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Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)
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Why my book can be downloaded for free
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Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part I)
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Utility poles
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The exponential function is a miracle
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Gray code at the pediatrician's office
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Notable items missing from English Wikipedia
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The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box
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The Irish Logarithm
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Software horror show: SAP Concur
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