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mturmon
on Aug 3, 2012
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Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles
Yes, very organic. The original programming shortcut accidentally created a sort of ecological niche, in which all sorts of things started to take root. Now, nobody can bulldoze the lot because there's too much stuff growing there.
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