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Re:Ask HN: What do top engineers you know do that others don't? by haecceity on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @01:43PM (#21874033)
Why is that like marines?
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Re:Ask HN: What do top engineers you know do that others don't? by jki275 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @02:36PM (#21874368)
There’s an old story about a Marine left alone in a room with two bowling balls for thirty minutes.

At the end of the thirty minutes one bowling ball was in a bunch of little pieces scattered all over the room and the other one was pregnant.

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Re:Ask HN: What do top engineers you know do that others don't? by huffmsa on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @07:22AM (#21878228)
In the Marine's defense, there was no bowling alley.
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Re:Ask HN: What do top engineers you know do that others don't? by jki275 on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @11:22AM (#21879108)
Exactly, what was he supposed to do?
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