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Those geeks you know (and I really wish you wouldn't generalize here) are being extremely shallow, since those practical innovations almost always build on deca
by contextfree 15y ago
Those geeks you know (and I really wish you wouldn't generalize here) are being extremely shallow, since those practical innovations almost always build on decades of academic and industrial research. Yeah, the people who put in the last piece of the puzzle needed to commercialize those innovations (which is a great accomplishment in itself, don't get me wrong) tend to be more practically oriented, big surprise there.
- sliverstorm 15y agoYes, but it is more romantic to attribute everything to one man cough Steve Jobs cough than to the decades of development that went before. Generally folks who have seen far recognize the shoulders upon which they stand, but those who idolize them seem to see them floating in air.