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Indeed. You should always have a second and third hammer any time you swing, with an automatic failover to complete the job in case the first hammer explodes on contact or spontaneously ceases to exist.


Unless of course you happen to be something akin to a cash-strapped startup, when you don't have those kind of luxuries.


I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic. Even if he wasn't, that's how I took it, just because it was funnier that way.


I was :) I just hear the "a poor craftsman blames his tools" line often, but I'd bet you'd hear Michelangelo singing a different tune if his chisel hammer broke off at the handle and landed on his toe.




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