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Hilarious. Is everybody doing this now? And here I thought I was being original!

It makes sense on so many levels. You save money, you broaden your horizons, and you shake up your thinking enough to let some new ideas out. I figure when I'm done I will have either put together a much more compelling github resume than I ever would have in an hour or two a night after work and I might even have an idea for my own startup.



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