"It's not going to be the old policy as usual, first of all because old policies didn't work,".

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Who was also one of the word's first programmers. So she was trying to write this program, and it didn't work.

也是世界上最早的几个程序员之一,她正尝试着完成一个,复杂的求反正切的程序。

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but unfortunately the days when I could go were never available. It didn't work out.

但可惜的是，我没时间去。没能实现这个心愿。

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"We talked about what would happen if it didn't work out, but we did it as a joke because we felt we didn't need to worry about that, " says Florescu.

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"I don't know why it didn't work for Andriy, " said Lampard.

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If they're not met, it's easier to point to why it didn't work, and it should be easier for both sides to subsequently see that the expectations were based on business, not personal, criteria .

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