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		hsjsbeebue on March 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: -2000 Lines of Code (2007) The moral: even if you are smart as Einstein you are still an employee and need to do employee things.

datavirtue on March 23, 2024 [–]

If Einstein was pressured by metrics we would have never heard of him.

michaelcampbell on March 23, 2024 | [–]

I suspect he was... as a patent clerk. And that may be why we never heard of him THEN.

renox on March 26, 2024 | | [–]

> I suspect he was... as a patent clerk.

I believe he managed to work on patents only in the morning..

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