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Comment by sizzle

22 days ago

Teflon and Antibiotics were scientific discoveries just through a pursuit of curiosity and applying the scientific method. Not sure these scientists who discovered them fit in your developer example… totally different contexts.

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austin-cheney  22 days ago

They were both discovered by accident on items bound for the trash, provided we ignore Ernest Duchesne.

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