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Re:My Favourite Programming Quotes on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @11:03AM (#2221658)
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. "

Measuring aircraft progress by weight is actually viable because it is already known what the final weight will be.

Re:Android Gmail App: Stealing Emails via XSS on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @08:31AM (#2221077)
A person is more likely to say "March 12 2010" instead of something like "12th of March 2010", hence the M/D/Y format.
CoffeeScript has C#-esque lambdas.

item_names = $("li.menu_item span").map (x) -> x.innerHTML