What's the point of mentioning a fictional compression startup as a comment on the algorithm made by Google?
To tell the world that he also watched the series?
To tell the world that he also watched the series?
A joke, or a pop culture reference. Stating a shared experience that others may also gleam some enjoyment out of, or to create the illusion of a shared community/experience to help maintain the illusion that we are not just meaningless souls adrift in an indifferent, eternal void, who's incomprehensible size only re-enforces the meaninglessness of our existence.
But like I said. A joke.
1) a reference to Monty Python which in this context demonstrates the relativity of the "shared experience." Even if it gave the name to the electronic spam!
Then flag/downvote it. Commenting about how unproductive an unproductive discussion is just further propagates the original unproductive discussion [1].
[1] Reference (read parents): https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=10258024
[1] http://bgr.com/2015/08/11/alphabet-easter-egg-google-hooli/