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by noonespecial 4812 days ago
I always thought that sucked. Its easy to take something that exists and make it better. Its damn hard to decide that something should exist in the first place and give it a try.

Like X only betterer is the ghetto of the technically talented but uncreative.

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I'm glad people improve on others work. Sad if they are jerks about it, but there I'd no shame in standing in the shoulders of others.
"But Mr. Ford, we already have a method for building horseless carriages, why would you develop a new one?"