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Last spring my cousin Jack found a new job at a small design company.去年春天，我表弟杰克在一家小型设计公司找到了新工作。 The office was near a park, and the landscape outside the window was green and quiet.办公室在公园附近，窗外的风景绿意盎然，十分安静。 His first task was to write a meaningful report about the company's new phone app.他的第一项任务是写一份关于公司新手机应用的有意义的报告。 He worked on it literally every evening for two weeks.他差不多连续两个星期每天晚上都在忙这件事。 The app had a rating of only two stars, so most users were unhappy with it.这款应用的评分只有两星，所以大多数用户都不满意。

The manager asked Jack to build a replacement for the old search page.经理让杰克为旧的搜索页面做一个替换版本。 One day a customer said the app had hurt his business, so he became the defendant in a small case.有一天，一位顾客说这款应用损害了他的生意，于是他成了一桩小案件的被告。 The company's liability for the problem was not clear at first.公司对这个问题的责任一开始并不清楚。 Jack read the file many times and took careful notes on every page.杰克把案卷读了很多遍，并在每一页上认真做了笔记。 At the meeting he said, "Jesus, this is more difficult than I expected."会上他说：“天啊，这比我想象的难多了。” His teammate answered with a smile, "Take it easy, Christ didn't build the app either."他的同事笑着回答：“别紧张，基督也没造这个应用啊。”

Everyone laughed, and the room felt warmer after that.大家都笑了，之后办公室的气氛轻松了许多。 In the end the court said the company did not have to pay.最后法院判定公司不必赔钱。 Jack told me it was a meaningful lesson about reading the rules before writing code.杰克告诉我，这是一次有意义的教训：写代码之前要先读规则。