Create Cathedrals, Not Bricks

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I get that it's a story, but I can't help but chuckle at some of the situational irony, that so much of the enduring longlasting bits of computing are the little bricks. The coreutils, posix, and the various little options added to them over time.

Most of thr cathedrals get swept under the sands of time. But the bricks keeps being useful.

Another take: mathematicians like to have theorems (cathedrals) named after them ... but they say the height of distinction is to have an eponymous lemma (brick).

I was going to make a vacuous comment about bricks, but then I noticed your user ID.

082349872349872 is a fascinating number.

Assuming one places a decimal point after the leading zero, and that it continues to repeat ...349872..., then:

It is equal to the (prime!) NCBI ID for the Phactr3[1] lab mouse gene, divided by 3, and then by each of the first six consecutive primes.

[1] https://www.informatics.jax.org/marker/MGI:1921439

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wow; I shall have to petition dang to allow for a vinculum in HN user IDs.

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The world if programmers didn't choose that job specifically because they like making bricks and ignoring cathedrals

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