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pyre on Jan 15, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Developmen...

> somebody saying their house is in America, but not in DC or any of the states

I live on Midway Atoll, you insensitive clod! ;-)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_State...)

wpietri on Jan 15, 2014 [–]

I almost said "states or territories", but DC is technically not a territory. And covering all the bases threw off the sentence. This being Hacker News, I knew I couldn't win. ;-)

pyre on Jan 15, 2014 | [–]

If analogies were perfect, then they wouldn't be analogies. :P

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