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Vaniver comments on Efficient Open Source - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 17 March 2015 09:16:15PM 4 points [-]

I don't think the Hamming advice is so great. It's akin to asking, "What are the highest salary professions? Why aren't you entering them?".

It is worth noting that advice is given to particular people, and Hamming was asking this at Bell Labs.