How to be a programmer

Posted on September 28th, 2004 by Sacha Chua
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http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html

Picked it up off my http://del.icio.us/inbox/sachac/ . Wonderful
stuff. =)

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