Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, theyโll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.
Bill GatesYou may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
Bill GatesWhen Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.
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