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tikhonj on May 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Design

That's a blatantly false dichotomy.

Often the people doing the arguing are also the most productive: witness Don Stewart. Quantitative finance is more demanding than some PHP-laden startup, and yet he still manages to write a bunch of libraries and surprisingly performant code.

skore on May 5, 2013 [–]

> That's a blatantly false dichotomy.

Hint: A lot of jokes are based on one.

tikhonj on May 5, 2013 | [–]

That tweet doesn't really come off as much of a joke. More like very thinly veiled criticism.

skore on May 5, 2013 | | [–]

Criticism of what?

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