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Ask HN: What did early Netscape programmers put on their teammate's desk

when that teammate introduced a bug in prod? A banana? Pineapple? Rubber duck???The idea was that you wouldn't want to be the one with the [object] on your desk ALL the time for obvious reasons, but you also wouldn't to NEVER have [object] on (around? over?) your desk either because it meant you weren't moving quickly enough or taking enough risks.I swear I read this somewhere but I am clearly...

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