“One person’s tenacity is another person’s terrorism”

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

arXiv’s founder Paul Ginsparg is unsurprisingly idiosyncratic, difficult to work with in the way that now seems par for the course in all STEM based geniuses. 

Funny too how little certain things matter when you build something people want. Gisparg simply did not document his code or adhere to any modern software development best practices while making arXiv, much to the chagrin of the team brought on to help him

“One person’s tenacity is another person’s terrorism”

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

arXiv’s founder Paul Ginsparg is unsurprisingly idiosyncratic, difficult to work with in the way that now seems par for the course in all STEM based geniuses. 

Funny too how little certain things matter when you build something people want. Gisparg simply did not document his code or adhere to any modern software development best practices while making arXiv, much to the chagrin of the team brought on to help him

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