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stcredzero on June 17, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

This is a reference to a short story? Or was it a New Yorker cartoon?

dagw on June 17, 2010 | [–]

Or "The Prisoner" TV series.

byoung2 on June 17, 2010 | [–]

Maybe a reference to this: http://xkcd.com/327/

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