Entries published on September 3, 2006

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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 the pieces of wood and into another. Many carpenters working in small shops had to resort to the terribly painful method of just banging the nails with …

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