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Fixed ! Thanks

I did mean "guys" in a gender-neutral sense, but you're right it's just as good without.

Thank you. And may I say, gitbook is awesome. Imagine teleporting back to the 1980s and showing this to an author trying to write the next Windows 3.1 Missing Manual. They would swoon.

I wouldn't worry about it too much; look at his user name.

This service is something I could have used about two years ago, when I was still actively an author. Maybe my curiosity about the toolchain (and my love of Markdown) will pull me back in.

A “nit” is a louse egg. On its own, it is nearly invisible and unlikely to trouble you. But left alone, it hatches into a louse. You can probably survive a louse or two quite easily. But if a couple of people in a community each have a louse or two, they breed. And eventually, your community is full of lice, and then it is very difficult to get rid of them.

Monkeys groom each other regularly, picking at the nits, thus keeping them below the level where they can bloom into a full-on louse infestation.

The metaphor applies to coding style, edge cases, questionable security practices, untested code, and grammar.

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