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Re:Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule ... by jetrink on Monday April 29, 2019 @07:34PM (#19783651)
A real-life Tortoise and the Hare story! (In the sense that slow and steady progress won the day. I do not wish to imply that Peffers team has any of the negative qualities of the hare.)
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Re:Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule ... by TacticalCoder on Monday April 29, 2019 @07:38PM (#19783684)
Kinda: a friend told me exactly that the other day. But we then discussed it: technically the hare started first and then rested, which is not what Simon and his team did : )
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