Having a laptop blow up on you while you're up at midnight doing an install is
dumb. I'm formatting the evil laptop now, and putting <a
href="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</a> on it, as RedHat won't fit on it
anymore. 

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What is it that motivates us? At work, so far, we've identified: 'flow' when
we're coding, instant gratification when we pull a quick hack, and heroism
when something blows up and we save the day. But is that all there is? These
seem like the crack rocks of psychological motivation. 

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<tt>/usr/bin/dc</tt>'s lack of support for non-integer exponents is dumb. I gave up on it
and wrote my own arbitrary precision calculator in perl.

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