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Simplicity is the primary measurement recommended for evaluating alternative
designs relative to reduced debugging and modification time. Simplicity can be
enhanced by dividing the system into separate pieces in such a way that pieces
can be considered, implemented, fixed and changed with minimal consideration
or effect on the other pieces of the system.

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Successive Refinement
An approach that relies heavily on subroutines is called “Successive Refinement.”

 The idea is that you begin by writing a skeletal version of your program
using natural names for procedures for data structures.

Then you write versionsof each of the named procedures.

You continue this process to greater levels of detail until 
the procedures can only be written in the computer language itself.

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An Englishman, a Frenchman, and a Bavarian were arguing about
what is the hardest language.
"English!" says the Englishman:
"We write 'Leichester' but say 'Lester'"
"No, French!" says the Frenchman:
"We "write 'hors d'ouvres' but say
'Or-derv.'"
"That's nothing," says the Bavarian:
"We write, 'excuse me Sir, could you repeat
youself, I must have misunderstood?' But we say,

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A bear sees a rabbit desperatly running through the woods.
The bear says, "what's the hurry?"
The rabbit says, "they're shooting ferrets!" 
"But you're not a ferret," says the bear.
"Yeah, OK, and after they shoot you, 
good luck explaining you're not a ferret," 
replies the rabbit, and they both start running.

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Why do you think that God intended one-based indexing?

Because the He didn't say, "Let there be light!" on the Zeroths Day

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  - Too Many Parameters?
  
  error:  should "howard" should be in quotes?
  #+HEADER: :dir /etc
  #+HEADER: :var USER=howard
  #+BEGIN_SRC sh
    grep $USER passwd
  #+END_SRC
  

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(defun devtools-test ()
;;Run test_that on each save by Brian Malehorn
;;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32257685/running-rdevtooltest-that-on-buffer-save-in-ess
  (interactive)
  (when
       (let* ((old (current-buffer)))
      (string-match (rx-to-string `(: ".R" eos) t) (buffer-name))
    (switch-to-buffer "*R*")
    (end-of-buffer)
    (insert "devtools::test()")

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Bloody Prize

• 1/2 lemon
• 1 blood orange
• Your entire purser's ration of @YourBlackMagic
• As much light agave as needed to take drink from "buccaneer" to "cabin boy"

Squeeze into glass, ice, stir.

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## When you
require 'test_helper'

## and create tests with, for example,
class UsersLoginTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest


  ## In your
  test "verify an important feature" do
    ## you can use assert statements to print out debugging info

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git rm $(git ls-files --deleted)