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		gchpaco on Sept 1, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The programmer's wife For some reason things with similar names land in the same hash bucket in my memory, and I say one when meaning the other. I usually catch myself about it, but man it's embarassing.

mahmud on Sept 1, 2009 [–]

your brain uses soundex instead of strcmp.

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