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elptacek on Oct 26, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: First Rule of Programming Is Don't Program

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." Attributed to Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the U.S. patent office, circa 1899

apotheon on Oct 26, 2009 [–]

I wish the patent office had taken that to heart and stopped issuing patents.

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