Panorama spoke to several problem gamblers, addicted to everything from scratch cards to online slot machines, and high stakes gaming terminals.

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Instead of writing everything from scratch, APIs provide libraries of predefined functions and commands that serve as reliable shortcuts for developers.

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Fortunately, we did start to get orders pretty quickly, and our initial decisions had put us on the right track to grow without needing to rebuild everything from scratch.

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Changing lines meant rewiring everything from scratch.

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Everything is cooked from scratch, and we supply two other schools.

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He recently spent a week in the U.S., looking at everything from empty land where Genting could build from scratch to buying a casino already operating or taking over a listed casino company.

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If we returned, we would have to start from scratch and go through everything we went through in Iran, all over again.

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Treblinka became real, the shift from myth to reality took place in a blinding flash, the encounter between a name and a place wiped out everything I had learned, forced me to start again from scratch.

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But given everything the company has riding on iTunes, the idea of rebuilding the program from scratch (or more likely, breaking it into several programs, in order to bring some logic to the media management madness) must seem incredibly risky and ambitious.

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