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Is it just me or is Goodenough an amusingly paradoxical last name for an inventor?
by danm07 10y ago
Is it just me or is Goodenough an amusingly paradoxical last name for an inventor?
- Maultasche 10y agoYeah, I noticed that too. On the other hand, an engineer needs to know when to say "it's good enough" and release it. An invention in the hands of a perfectionist may never be released.
- CodeWriter23 10y agoI don't know about paradoxical. But we know he shipped tech that was good enough.
- tomrod 10y agoAs a name for an inventor, it's good enough ;-). In all seriousness, it's a wonderful step forward. Certainly for stationary situations it's a great leap forward.
- tomrod 10y agoAs a name for an inventor, it's good enough ;-). In all seriousness, it's a wonderful step forward. Certainly for stationary situations it's a great leap forward.
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- radioactivist 10y agoHe's also well known in solid-state physics for the "Goodenough rules" [1] (more commonly called the Goodenough-Kanamori rules, but that has less of a ring to it). [1] http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Goodenough-Kanamori_rule http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Goodenough-Kanamori_rule
- Arizhel 10y agoWhat's really astounding is reading that, and looking at the dates. He first formulated this rule in 1955. And he's still working and making real contributions! We really need to work on greatly extending human lifespans, if for no other reason than to keep people like this alive.
- clamprecht 10y agoOddly, his enemy at UTexas is professor Perfect in the Mathematics department.
- RIMR 10y agoWell, he does still use Windows XP. I guess that's good enough for him.
- sebnukem2 10y agoReading his name at the beginning of the article made me check my calendar to see if it was already April 1st.