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The comment thread about a developer of a high level of mathematic ability who wrote and maintained a widely used piece of software used for backups. Someone co
by CTDOCodebases 5y ago
The comment thread about a developer of a high level of mathematic ability who wrote and maintained a widely used piece of software used for backups. Someone commented something to the effect of “He gave up on solving Millennium problems to write backup software”.
- _dain_ 5y agoAnd in so doing, saving the world orders of magnitude more in $$$ than he could have won solving a Millenium problem.
- lambdatronics 5y agoThis one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24537865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24537865
- CTDOCodebases 5y agoYes that was it. Thanks for providing the link.