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On 11/01/2015 06:52 AM, Laurent wrote:
> 
> So if you have a better solution than the actual one but are not part of a
> large community which supports this, then you can burn it immediately. Only
> because no one wants to change a thing and prefer to use some crappy solution
> over changing something and investing time and effort.

Sure. Thirty years ago I worked on a research project funded by a black project.
The researcher said at the beginning that the project wouldn't use our results,
no matter how good they were, because the project wasn't in trouble. The
standard approach to the problem was quite complex and very calculation
intensive. The researcher's approach worked, was more accurate than the
theoretical minimum for the standard approach, and required fewer calculations.
The project stuck with the standard approach.

> Somehow this world sucks.

Then you die.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"It's symbolic of his struggle against reality."
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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