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A pure-JavaScript CSS selector engine
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Categorically that the most expensive question a manager can ask is "What are you working on?"
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I’m a principled person. Apple’s offended my principles. Consequently, I’ve decided to abandon iPhone development. I won...
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I love Cucumber, but I hate writing step definitions. They are ugly, awkward to write and very, very boring: Most...