Entries on September 3, 2006

Tool Wars

A long time ago, in a land far away, there lived people who were called “carpenters”, and their jobs consisted, in part, of the following tasks:

  • Cutting pieces of wood to particular sizes
  • Occasionally refining those pieces of wood into particular shapes
  • Putting the pieces of wood together, and making them stay together.

Now, the last one was particularly problematic, because it usually involved pounding a small metal connector — called a “nail” — through one of ...

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