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joshuahedlund on Oct 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software...

Multiple software engineers independently arriving at the same obvious solution? Sounds like something somebody would try to patent today...

sukuriant on Oct 11, 2012 [–]

Thankfully many of the novel solutions that were created in the early days weren't created by people that just wanted a buck.

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