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		kranner on Feb 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Challenging the myth of individual programmer prod... The von Neumann story is apocryphal. I've read it before but it was Nikola Tesla instead of von Neumann in that version. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/know-where-man/

j7ake on Feb 2, 2020 [–]

Thanks for the correction . I didn’t mean to convey the anecdote as factually true , but only as an illustrative example.

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