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A comment on Feynman’s Breakthrough, Disregard Others (2017). Parent comment

Re:Feynman’s Breakthrough, Disregard Others (2017) by vast on Monday June 17, 2019 @05:17AM (#20201172)
Just accusing consultants it too simple. This mindset is prevalent in whole software culture. Think leftpad.
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Re:Feynman’s Breakthrough, Disregard Others (2017) by tonyedgecombe on Monday June 17, 2019 @05:44AM (#20201302)
Leftpad was an example where we should reinvent the wheel.

Introducing a dependency on an NPM module for so little returned value is a lot different from a physicist or mathematician relying on a peer reviewed result from another academic.

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