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This whole Xcode/$5 topic (which seems to be getting unnatural air time on HN) reminds me of an old joke:

A mom is at the beach with her child. Child gets swept away by a wave.

She says "God, if you just bring him back, I'll [insert long set of promises]!!!"

The next wave tosses the kid back on the shore, unharmed.

She looks up and says "he had a hat!"

How easy our lives have become that we can spend all this ink griping about $5, or a 15GB download that has to be done twice a year over our very fast broadband connections.



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