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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by failrate on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:14PM (#14904848)
More like how turning on lights is easy for billions of people because someone else did the hard work of the power lines, generators, switches, light bulbs, etc.
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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by failrate on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:50PM (#14905180)
Actually, it would be more like all of that stuff already existed, but it was a woeful and Byzantine process to get all of it lined up for your particular lightbulb.
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