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huxley on Sept 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database

A spanner is also British English for what North Americans call a wrench.

regularfry on Sept 16, 2012 [–]

Also, colloquially, for an idiot.

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