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Saturday, August 27, 2005

Quick Fix is an oxymoron

If it's quick, it's not a fix; it's a hack. You can do quick fixes, but you need to know you're buying yourself trouble later on. True fixes eliminate problems instead of hiding them...

# posted by James McGovern @ 11:40 AM

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