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Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life; William Shakespeare – To Be or Not To Be
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respect: aspect, factor.

makes…long life: prolongs calamity.

We suffer the pain of existence, Hamlet suggests, because the alternative is so dark and unknowable. It’s our fear of something worse after death that keeps us bound to the long “calamity” of life.

Or, as Hamlet puts it in the same soliloquy: “the dread of something after death– / The undiscover’d country…puzzles the will.”

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The iambic beat puts a two beat pause after pause which was very clever by shakespeare to tell actors to actually pause there

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moment of silence

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Metaprogramming Ruby Genius Engineering Team (Ft. Mat Brown) – Our Favorite Programming Resources
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http://www.amazon.com/Metaprogramming-Ruby-Program-Like-Pros/dp/1934356476

How well do you know your eigenclasses and metaclasses? Your modules and method_missing’s? This is the definitive guide to some of Ruby’s most powerful (and dangerous) language features.

Bonus points if you can give a definition of metaprogramming better than “code that writes code.”

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metacode that takes in code as it’s attributes to manipulate em at compile time? ._. #Random-thought

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