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Oreo Separators

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This slapdash Oreo Separator Machine project quickly captivated me with its hilarious presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pii4G8FkCA4
It reminded me of a number of software projects I’ve taken stewardship of over the years: projects that actually work and solve a real problem for their owners, but were perhaps created by someone uninitiated in the finer points of software creation.
I love pitching in on these sorts of codebases because you can often make dramatic improvements to the code’s performance and quality by making a few calculated modifications.

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The 5 W’s of Quality Assurance

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Accurate Timing

Accurate Timing

In many tasks we need to do something at given intervals of time. The most obvious ways may not give you the best results. Time? Meh. The most basic tasks that don't have what you might call CPU-scale time requirements can be handled with the usual language and...

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