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		alnayyir on July 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rust programming language How does any of that contradict this being NIH? Just because it's ken's NIH doesn't change that that is what it is.

wmf on July 9, 2010 [–]

But there are different levels of NIH, where "I already had working code" is probably less bad than "I wrote my own because I felt like it".

alnayyir on July 9, 2010 | [–]

That's a fair way to put it, I think. It's still rather immense to my mind how much trouble they went through for no apparent reason.

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