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Decades ago, I received a gift while reading Hackers by Stephen Levy and an anthology Scottish poetry.

In Hackers, there's a page or two that talks about the relationship between the wiring under their train set and the ability to "hack" the lines / bytes of code required for a program to operate. Moments later, I was reading Robert Burns.

The gift was: remove all that is unnecessary and include only your best, and you have the best chance of success.

Poetry is language hacking - thank you ISL for posting this here - well played!




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