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sparrowInHand on March 4, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Corvette that Windows zip folders bought

The lesson is to work on topics that are used by billions and make something small and useful, that is hard to replicate and thus worth a buyout.

dist-epoch on March 4, 2024 [–]

There is nothing hard to replicate here.

Microsoft could have put 3 of their programmers to work on this for one month. But it's probably faster and more convenient to just buy it out.

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