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cperciva on Nov 6, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Let's have coffee.

Companies which write to me saying "we're using some open source code you wrote, thanks for doing that -- here's a free t-shirt" tend to get more help from me when they write back later to say that they're having trouble with something.

mathattack on Nov 6, 2013 [–]

Paying for favors in advance goes a long way. I like the saying, "Dig the well before you need it."

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