“A black man named Cory Maye is sitting on death row in Mississippi because he heard men trying to break into his home late at night in December of 2001, where he was alone with his 18-month-old baby daughter. Mr. Maye, who had no criminal record, got the child down onto the floor and lay down beside her to protect her. When one of the men finally broke into the bedroom, Cory Maye shot and killed him. The man was hit in the abdomen, just below his bulletproof vest, and died a short time later.

The man who had failed to knock and identify himself before breaking in was a cop, and was really after suspects in the other half of the duplex where Cory Maye lived. The cop was the white son of the white chief of police. An all-white jury sentenced Cory Maye, who is black, to death for exercising his right to defend his locked home and family against violent invasion by an unknown intruder. The all-white jury took only a few hours to do so, at least one juror explaining he wanted to get home for supper.

“SourceSafe, CVS, Subversion and even Perforce users tend to be against branching because their tools are quite bad when dealing with merging parallel development lines.

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“Google reads its own AdSense ads off of web pages and records those as legitimate content, coupling keywords from the ads with the page URLs.

“..the majority of ad clicks are coming from these one-time visitors looking for information. New visitors to a site love to click on anything that brings them closer to their goal, and often times that’s an ad. Do your best users a favor and think about turning off ads for them. It’s unlikely to make a dent in your bottom line but will pay off with a better user experience for your site’s biggest fans.

“Google places tips for testing your code next to each toilet and above every urinal. Tips are swapped out about every week.

“..the presence of a widely accepted, half-assed attempt at a type of software is actually worse than no solution at all..

“With strong types, and automated testing, you have the machine support to move the code faster and further.

Keep your code pure [functional], so you can test harder..

Pick a data structure that embeds the semantics of the domain you’re modelling..