Kurbo Readme Philosophies section

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Philosophies
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* Kurbo is a work of engineering, not hackery
  - Your first instinct is not necessarily correct.
  - Having to use a hack is a tragedy.

* Kurbo uses behavior-driven development
  - The spec comes before the code.
  - If you can't write a spec for it, how can you write the code?
  - Sometimes the setup is hard, though.

* Kurbo doesn't rewrite the wheel
  - Some hours spent searching for and evaluating possible solutions can save hours of writing and weeks of future debugging.

* Kurbo outsources the crap
  - If its not our core business, there's a point to which its more valuable to pay someone else to do it
  - Github is superior to anything we would use here.
  - Heroku means we don't have to hire someone to babysit servers and generally make the lives of the engineers miserable.

* Kurbo uses the best tools
  - This goes for the entire stack.
  - We remain agnostic to specific tools a developer would want to have preference over (text editor, shell, etc)
  - We enforce standardization on tools that impact colleagues