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Good for you. Hamming worked long hours, neglected his wife and now there's a function named after him in every scientific library running billions of times a d
by haihaibye 7y ago
Good for you. Hamming worked long hours, neglected his wife and now there's a function named after him in every scientific library running billions of times a day.
Nobody should be forced to work long hours but if they want to, and it works for them - go for it I say.
- watwut 7y agoHow do you know he neglected his wife? I found that they did not had children, but could not find anything else about his personal life.
- haihaibye 7y agoHamming quote in post 5 ancestors back: I spent a good deal more of my time for some years trying to work a bit harder and I found, in fact, I could get more work done. I don't like to say it in front of my wife, but I did sort of neglect her sometimes
- XorNot 7y agoAnd he might've achieved that regardless. Study after study finds people have about 6 productive hours a day in them.