My boss had a list of e-mail addresses with a lot of duplicates. He
wanted to get rid of those. He assumed that this is an easy task for a
computer savvy person, so he asked a developer to do the job.
The developer began working on this. Sadly, my boss was in a hurry and
the dev wasn't quick enough. So my boss ran to me and said that he
wants to get the job done right fucking now.
Well.
I copied the addresses from a Google Spreadsheet into a textfile.
1 $ sort <data | uniq >foo
I copied the new file back to Google.
My boss watched me do this. Of course, the whole thing took about 30
seconds which was ... well, not as much as the 20 minutes the
developer had already spent on this. Boss starts laughing. Boss starts
ranting about devs. Boss hugs me.
