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An edge city is a dense, auto-oriented job center arising from nearby suburban areas, usually without top-down planning. The office parks of Silicon Valley are one such example: the area had a surplus of land and gradually became the core of the American tech industry. In American urbanism, Tysons in Virginia is a common archetype: the area was a minor crossroads until the Capital Beltway made it unusually accessible by car, providing extensive auto-oriented density with little historic core.
Edge Cities With and Without Historic Cores
Alon Levy
He noticed when a technician on a call began by examining copies that had been thrown in the trash and deduced from them that the problem with the machine was different from what the customer had reported. “The trashcan is a filter between good copies and bad,” one technician explained “Just go to the trashcan to find the bad copies and then… interpret what connects them all.”
The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine
worksinprogress.co
If a `swear` ever fails, **the function is deleted from the source code.** This guarantees that only functionally correct remains in the codebase.
> *But isn’t a language that deletes code crazy?*
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> No, wanting to keep code that demonstrably has bugs according to its own specifications is crazy. What good could it possibly serve? It is corrupted and must be cleansed from your codebase.
Funny Programming Languages
Hillel Wayne
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