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Joel Spolsky Quotes: If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.
         

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.


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