Sabiston, a professional programmer and engineer, got Nintendo to send him a DS software development kit which allowed him to pump out a sweet painting and animation app to make his DS bot a visual virtuoso (example pictured left).

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Wall Street powerhouse Bear Stearns recently received a 100, 000-line chunk of fresh software from its Bangalore development team, a block too big to check easily or to spot a single programmer's habitual errors.

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