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	* Keep things simple		* Keep things simple
	* Live and do insteand of have		* Live and do insteand of have
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		+	==Driving Projects==
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		+	* do instead of talk
		+	* make debug easier
		+	* write documentation at the same time you write code
		+	* write tests at the same time you write code
		+	* you'll never do what you don't do now
		+	* concentrate on a single task
		+	* think, code, test, and compare to other implementations (in this order)
		+	* be honest with yourself
		+	* don't look for self-satisfaction, try to do something good and elegant
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		+	==Writing Style==
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		+	From [http://www.writingclasses.com/InformationPages/index.php/PageID/300 George Orwell: 6 Questions/6 Rules].
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		+	A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus:
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		+	* What am I trying to say?
		+	* What words will express it?
		+	* What image or idiom will make it clearer?
		+	* Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
		+	* And he will probably ask himself two more:
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		+	* Could I put it more shortly?
		+	* Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?
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		+	One can often be in doubt about the effect of a word or a phrase, and one needs rules that one can rely on when instinct fails. I think the following rules will cover most cases:
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		+	# Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
		+	# Never use a long word where a short one will do.
		+	# If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
		+	# Never use the passive where you can use the active.
		+	# Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
		+	# Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.*
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		+	-- From Orwell's essay “Politics and the English Language”

	==Programming==		==Programming==

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