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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
several minutes ago. We don't need no stinkin' tactical nukes.
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My favorites (Score:1)
My favorites are »$module should do that for me« and »I shouldn't have to think about that.«
Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley
A pet peeve of mine too (Score:1)
The latest example I can remember, a coworker stated baldly, "queries like this should run in under 1 second."
I probably should have bit my tongue, but I couldn't help replying with, "sure, and I want a pony, but that's probably not going to happen." I think he still harbors some resentment for that...
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Unfortunately, I've been known to make replies like that myself. I get in trouble for it :)
Interesting factoid (Score:1)
If you tell weightlifters that they should be able to lift a weight, they are able to lift less weight than they can if you tell them that they can do it.
Hearing the word "should" makes you weaker. Literally!
Mine is "just" (Score:1)
And then we just do some testing, and we'll be ready for production.
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:)
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See also [perl.org]. (The comments are fun too.)