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Re:Efficient Editing With vim on Friday September 25, 2009 @02:47PM (#844050)
Warning: learning Vim makes you look for Vim like commands in any program you interact with using the keyboard. Everything else will be frustrating.

Companies as persons

http://blog.tetrack.com/2009/01/companies-as-persons/

It’s no news that there have been a lot of layoffs in the IT industry lately. And there are more to come, I expect, because layoffs are supposed to have a positive economic impact for the company (which is higly desired in stormy economic times). But layoffs also come with a big price tag: they leave behing a cloud of doubt, lack of trust and uncertainty over the remaining employees.

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Re:On code quality: rewrite once on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @10:07AM (#452167)
You are right. Refactoring can be "the way" to improve existing code. This technique is meant to improve the quality of the first implementation. Think about the first source control submit.