So that we take very quickly the tedium out of-- what is otherwise-- could be a very repetitive process.

它可以让我们从这些重复乏味的工作中-,解脱出来。

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Because if they work any harder than that, then the other person is just going to slack off instead.

因为我们知道如果自己超额完成工作,其他人就可以少做点工作了

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So you can see, and this is an important thing we look at, is that as we look at growth, it didn't look like it mattered a lot with 6.

现在你可以明白，我们在做的是一件很重要的工作，那就是当我们看到增长的时候，参数为6的时候倒是没什么关系。

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Could you tell us about the work you're doing?

你可以给我们讲讲你现在的工作吗？

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It looks like we're still figuring out - this room was just renovated, we're still working out exactly how the electronics work. So normally we'll see a percentage of how many of you got it, but I'm going to say it was probably about 95% got the answer right.

这个房间刚刚装修过,我们还在试图搞明白，这些线路怎么工作的,如果正常的话,我们可以看到，你们回答正确的百分比，但我觉得你们,95%的人答对了。

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You're not going to start for the rest of your life if you ever need to solve a problem with a computer from scratch, odds are you're going to reach for some off the shelf packages or libraries or tools that other people wrote so that people like us don't have to reinvent the wheel again and again.

如果你想用Scratch来解决问题,却使用其他人写的程序,或者利用现成的资料或工具,这样以来,我们的确可以避免做重复性的工作,但却永远学不会编程。

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Important lesson, so that there would be some predictability in the results and I would have some, if you will, smoke test for knowing whether or not I was getting, my code seemed to be working.

这很重要，因为这样我就可以预测,结果会是多少了，如果你愿意，我们可以做烟气试验,来看我的代码是否工作正常。

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