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the long unglamorous middle where nothing works until everything does.
means To make something by putting parts together, piece by piece, until a whole stands where there was nothing.
from From Old English byldan, 'to construct,' which grew from bold, a word for a house or dwelling. So at its root, to build is simply to make a home — the act named after the thing it first produced. It's related to other old Germanic words for dwelling and being, the same family that gives us the quiet sense of where one lives and stays.
- latin root
- shares roots with 'dwelling' and 'to be'
- compile time
- developers wage sword fights while builds run
- muscle slang
- 'gains' is just a body under construction
- video games
- a wrong build can make you unkillable or useless
- trust
- takes years to build, seconds to demolish
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