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Re:New Surface Pro by coldtea on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @09:54AM (#14401177)
Regardless of parent's aim, that's actually a very good advice for any developer.
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Re:New Surface Pro by predakanga on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:42AM (#14401616)
It reminds me of the story "The programming antihero" from an old Gamasutra article[1]

"He knew from experience that it was always impossible to cut content down to memory budgets, and that many projects had come close to failing because of it. So now, as a regular practice, he always put aside a nice block of memory to free up when it's really needed."

[1]: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132500/dirty_coding_tr...

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