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mysterydip
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Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program...
> which accidentally did turn out to be useful
I hate when I'm having fun and accidentally make something useful :)
kragen
8 months ago
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It was more that I thought the approach I was taking would doom it to being uselessly slow, but it turns out Linux is actually pretty fast at forking, especially when your process's entire memory map is 20K :-)
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I hate when I'm having fun and accidentally make something useful :)