His advice about research and published work applies to software as well. Just because someone published that shiny new framework before you and got lots of upvotes does not mean you should despair. You should look at and learn from it and ask yourself how you could have approached the problem differently. You will learn a lot and chances are pretty high there is still something unique in your work that can be factored out and either published on its own or integrated into the more popular framework.
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His advice about research and published work applies to software as well. Just because someone published that shiny new framework before you and got lots of upvotes does not mean you should despair. You should look at and learn from it and ask yourself how you could have approached the problem differently. You will learn a lot and chances are pretty high there is still something unique in your work that can be factored out and either published on its own or integrated into the more popular framework.