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The feature I avoided for half a year

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Jan 212009
 

The other day I finally implemented a feature in Ledger which I’d avoided doing for a full half-year. The reason? Every time I thought about it, my brain kept shutting down. It seems my brain doesn’t care for math much, or for mathy problems, so it always seemed as if something better needed doing…

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 Posted by johnw at 4:15 pm  Tagged with: algorithm, commodity

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