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		bombcar on May 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for wha... I think the joke is that you write a program, and someone well known like Carmack or Linus submits a minor patch, and you from then on say "Linus and I wrote ..."

sharken on May 20, 2021 [–]

Yeah it's all in good fun, kind of like you have the Chuck Norris memes.

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