soreff comments on Rationality Quotes June 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: beoShaffer 12 June 2012 02:29:40AM 0 points [-]

When you choose technology, you have to ignore what other people are doing, and consider only what will work the best. -Paul Graham

Comment author: soreff 14 June 2012 06:54:45PM 2 points [-]

One of the things that other people do is to build standard parts. If one has an unlimited budget, one can ignore them, and build everything in a project from optimized custom parts. This is rare.