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Wednesday, July 05 2000

Washington Post : Do-It-Yourself Checkout

"We're so Internet-oriented, so ATM-oriented. It's a natural transition. It's a natural extension of what we do every day." And you just know that whenevers he mouths drivel like this he sees not his sorry-ass grocery store self but instead Obi-Wan Kenobi jedi mind-fucking stormtroopers telling them : "There is nothing to see here."

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Perl Golf Apocalypse

"will have 10 teams, each comprised of up to 3 Perl hackers. Each team will be given its own computer to use and will to try to solve a set of simple problems by writing a short piece of Perl code. Each team must submit its code, which will then be tested and compared to the answers from the other teams. Each problem (or hole as we call them) will be given to all the teams at the same time and will have a time limit (about 5-7 minutes, depending on the hole). There will be 9 holes in all and after 4 of them the 5 lowest scoring teams will be cut (just like in real golf tournaments)."

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