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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by dschiffner on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:25PM (#14903114)
I hate click-bait headlines as much as anyone else... but nowhere in this headline does it say that they started with 7 lines of code.
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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by tedunangst on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:30PM (#14903178)
The typical interpretation of "turned 7 X into Y" isn't "7 X plus another million X turned into Y". Last night I turned a pat of butter into a steak dinner. Never mind I also started with a steak, thats an irrelevant detail.
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