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> Jake served as our key code review expert for many years (Dog Years that is) - but finally was lost to the organisation when he starved to death during an especially complete checkout of the Transaction Interchange Manager's Scheduling Algorithm.<p>Should I take this sentence literally or is the checkout —or for that matter, Jake’s starvation — metaphorical?