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>"Why would you want to do that?" because it seems like the right thing to do? Is there a better way.
>"What's this for?" the boss wants it
>"Did you try searching before asking such a stupid question?" I read the manual and thought about it a lot (remember this was pre-Internet)
so, there was a lot of "rough" hand-holding to learn the ropes for edge cases.
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>"Why would you want to do that?" because it seems like the right thing to do? Is there a better way.
>"What's this for?" the boss wants it
>"Did you try searching before asking such a stupid question?" I read the manual and thought about it a lot (remember this was pre-Internet)
so, there was a lot of "rough" hand-holding to learn the ropes for edge cases.