The 5 Commandments of Automation

Programmers automate things—it's what we do. In fact, it's pretty much all we do. Some of us automate payroll and billing, some of us automate the process of flying combat missions, and some of us automate the process of stalking people you knew in high school, but we're all in the automation business.
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My Most Productive Cronjob

I waste way too much time on the web. Most people I know do—it's the TV of the new generation. Sure, the web is more interactive, more informative, and more social than TV ever was, but most of my web-surfing is still just time-wasting. And it's addictive. I had real trouble keeping myself away from the web. Then I figured, “I'm a programmer. I bend computers to my will, not the other way around. I can fix this.”
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