'Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful

Because here in Puppet-land we're all about self-reference and  
recursion, and because I actually have to give a talk at RubyConf  
next weekend about abusing self-reference, and because parent nodes  
aren't considered harmful in my own world, I give you:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000982.html

I think it manages to somehow be both on- and off-topic at the same  
time.

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