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		joe_bleau on July 24, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joel Spolsky: The Day My Industry Died I have a couple as well, one still plugged into to my PC at work. I never understood why people thought it was such a terrible idea.

Quarrelsome on July 24, 2009 [–]

Cause of the whole chicken <-> egg problem. No-one will use CueCats unless there are lots of those barcodes online. The barcodes wont appear in significant numbers online unless everyone has a CueCat.

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