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"What type of runner can run full speed from the very start of the race? That's right. Someone who runs very short distances. But as programmers, we are smarter than that. We just fire the starter pistol again every 100 yards. I don’t know why runners haven't figured that out." --Rich Hickey


Can you expand on that?


He's mocking the concept of a 'sprint' [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(scrum)#Sprint




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