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> So there’s a little live reporting on the situation in the streets.
> I offered no aid.
I just want to say I find this writing style refreshing as it’s a bit out of distribution for typical HN comments. Anyway, thanks for sharing your experience.
The Value of 'The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page' Hitting the HN Front Page
I guess the value would be people might be more likely to prepare with CDNs or engage with comments etc. I wonder if that's measurable.
The history of this term goes back… one year? (from a rather unpopular meme) I’m all for introducing new vocab in english but it feels like there should already be a term for this.
Maybe “population fallacy”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy ?
> […] if the Sun were a ping-pong ball, […] the average distance between stars […] is analogous to one ping-pong ball every 3.2 km (2 mi).
Intuitively this visualization actually makes it seem like stars are pretty close? Usually with galactic dimensions it’s hard for our mere monkey minds to grasp the scales but this is actually pretty easy to imagine.
So generally butter is not a problem for people with lactose intolerance anyway.
> It's a trick I learned from pg for keeping the focus on content rather than personalities.
IMO none of us would’ve bothered reading this if it were just some random person’s commencement address. I personally would’ve been bummed if I skipped this post just because I didn’t find the nonsense title (nonsense unless you read the article) interesting enough.
I’m sure I’m not the first to point out that Junio (the appointed git “shepherd”) works at Google where mercurial is the “recommend local vcs” internally instead of git.
It comes with this tool’s benefit of native scrolling/cp paste PLUS the huge benefit of “right click to split vertical/horizontal”.
“conversely, as the price of a good decreases (↓), quantity demanded will increase (↑)”
Compare them with a Big N that has 10,000s of SWE’s. It’s a safe assumption that each engineer is individually less talented but even so, how do they iterate/experiment with such few employees?
Did the author answer these questions? How far above the center of the cake is 55 light years?