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Re:Maintainers make the world go round: Innovation is an ove... by pimlottc on Monday May 08, 2017 @05:43PM (#14295895)
Er, can you explain that last sentence?
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Re:Maintainers make the world go round: Innovation is an ove... by SIRHAMY on Monday May 08, 2017 @05:51PM (#14295951)
A nail as in its own rack to hang on. Because they value that broom and its mission enough to go through the trouble of creating a rack for it, you could imagine that they put some higher value in that mission (maintenance) and its role in accomplishing it.

At least, that's what I got out of it.

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Re:Maintainers make the world go round: Innovation is an ove... by Animats on Monday May 08, 2017 @06:24PM (#14296197)
It's quite real. TechShop once had racks for their brooms and dustpans. After two moves, the mid-peninsula TechShop lost their broom racks. Maintenance went downhill about that time.
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Re:Maintainers make the world go round: Innovation is an ove... by pharrlax on Monday May 08, 2017 @06:09PM (#14296103)
That's about when the LSD started kicking in.
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