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Ok, I came up with an example.

Programming is like doing a massive sudoku. But you’re not just doing your own square; you have to line up the edges with squares that you’ve already done, or squares other people in your team are working on.

And it’s not just squares that you’ve done — you have to anticipate the sudokus you’ll be doing days, weeks or months from now, and leave easy numbers at the edges so it isn’t impossible to do those squares.

And that’s why some programmers are so engrossed in it, and get all worked up, because they’re like “You left a 5 in the middle of the square, what kind of asshole does that, now I’m gonna have to line all my squares up with that.”

And then someone points out a bug, and you have to trace it back to the square it came from, and then redo that square without screwing up all the other ones.

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// ==UserScript==
// @name Emulate `unsafeWindow` in browsers that don’t support it.
// ==/UserScript==

// http://mths.be/unsafewindow
window.unsafeWindow || (
	unsafeWindow = (function() {
		var el = document.createElement('p');
		el.setAttribute('onclick', 'return window;');
		return el.onclick();

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var number = 0,
    increment = 0.00000000000001, // smallest value that makes a difference
    result,
    matches,
    match;

for (; number < 100; number += increment) {
	result = number.toString(33);
	matches = result.match(/[a-z]+/g) || [];
	match = matches.indexOf('wtf');

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// Load scripts asynchronously
jQuery.loadAsync = function(url, callback) {
	// Don't use $.getScript since it disables caching
	jQuery.ajax({
		'url': url,
		'dataType': 'script',
		'cache': true,
		'success': callback || jQuery.noop
	});
};

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// ==UserScript==
// @name Sensible defaults for jsFiddle.
// @author Mathias Bynens <http://mathiasbynens.be/>
// @link http://mths.be/bde
// @match http://jsfiddle.net/*
// ==/UserScript==

// Ignore existing fiddles
if (window.location.pathname == '/') {

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// Ever needed to escape '\n' as '\\n'? This function does that for any character,
// using hex and/or Unicode escape sequences (whichever are shortest).
// Demo: http://mothereff.in/js-escapes
function unicodeEscape(str) {
	return str.replace(/[\s\S]/g, function(character) {
		var escape = character.charCodeAt().toString(16),
		    longhand = escape.length > 2;
		return '\\' + (longhand ? 'u' : 'x') + ('0000' + escape).slice(longhand ? -4 : -2);
	});
}

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// ==UserScript==
// @name Hide Jimmy Wales.
// @match http://*.wikipedia.org/*
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
	var banner = document.getElementById('siteNotice');
	banner && banner.style.display = 'none';
}());

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// ==UserScript==
// @name Disable the SOPA overlay on English Wikipedia
// @author Mathias Bynens <http://mathiasbynens.be/>
// @match http://en.wikipedia.org/*
// ==/UserScript==

// http://mths.be/unsafewindow
window.unsafeWindow || (
	unsafeWindow = (function() {
		var el = document.createElement('p');

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#!/usr/bin/env node

// Verify the most famous MD5 collision example in JavaScript, using nothing but
// built-in Node modules.

var crypto = require('crypto');
var ucs2encode = require('punycode').ucs2.encode;
var assert = require('assert');

var md5 = function(string) {

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<?php

// Prevent content sniffing attacks such as http://mths.be/bst.
header('X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff');

// Note: The user-provided callback name must be filtered to prevent attack
// vectors. This script simply removes any symbols other than `[a-zA-Z0-9$_]`
// from the input. Sadly, this blocks the use of some valid JavaScript
// identifiers, and also accepts a few invalid ones. See
// http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-identifiers for details.