A great concept, Taco Bell Programming. Take simple, known elements and mix to get what you need.
Here’s a concrete example: suppose you have millions of web pages that you want to download and save to disk for later processing. How do you do it? The cool-kids answer is to write a distributed crawler in Clojure and run it on EC2, handing out jobs with a message queue like SQS or ZeroMQ.
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It’s Santa Claus, come to deliver presents!
Santa-3PO, here to deliver presents to everyone!
A cute little space shuttle
Santa’s speeder sleigh!
Essentially, I know exactly how generic my code needs to be by noticing that I’m tempted to cut and paste some code, and then instead of cutting and pasting it, designing a generic solution that meets just those two specific needs. I do this as soon as I’m tempted to have two implementations of something.
A great way of looking at code reuse and when to make generics.
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R2-D2’s dressed up to party!
Someone searched for: 
Which is “Lego Star Wars Calendar” in Belarusian and ended up here. I learned a new thing today, perusing my referrer logs 🙂
I also learned that WordPress doesn’t work in unicode. Blergh. Images it is!
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A young lady with a cupcake and a phone
