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throwawayimp··on The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses
Time to shut down the Internet and go outside.

So why are IPv4 addresses so valuable? Mostly because IPv6 is overly-complicated and a pain to work with. We should have first added a new range where 5 of the 8 hextets were 0000. And found a simple way to write it without ::

Why wasn't that done?

throwawayimp··on The care and feeding of software engineers, or why engineers are grumpy (2012)
More improv "don't" tips from The Office: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C6wY9OwqJ2A