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		swiley on Oct 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a ... I think a better way to phrase it is that reinventing the wheel has very little business value. But IMO you can learn a lot reinventing things badly and correct software has little business value anyway.

a1369209993 on Oct 5, 2020 [–]

As the saying goes: we reinvent the wheel not because we need more wheels, but because we need more inventors.

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