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What is funny is that it would have taken Keurig just a bit more effort to make the chip so that it has an unique signature. That way the machine will store the numbers it had already processed, and this hack would only allow you to cheat if you have more than one machine, but you'd still need to buy originals half of the time.
such notation, what fun, how interesting, wow
Programming for the last 30-something years, and the last 20 mostly in Perl. Every few years I got a job with Java or Python, or something of the sorts, and learned new things, but returned to Perl. Every time I returned to Perl, I noticed that my code style changed, improved, and I felt better about my Perl skills. There was not one point where I thought "let's just leave this behind and go with the new kid on the block".
There was never a point where I felt that Perl won't do the job. In fact, many times I came to replace some complex ball of wax written in some other language with simply written Perl code, and everybody slept better afterwards.
Sure, there are many frameworks, and it seems easier to just write a little glue code on top of that - I always resisted that urge. I write my code as minimalist as possible, with the least amount of includes or dependencies. Things work, and my customers are happy. If there is one thing I am happy about later Perl releases is that they fixed threading and it works now as it should.