"First they came for the trade unionists,"
"Dunning-Krueger Effect!"
"Wouldn't have happened if they used a secure coding language, like Rust"
"That's a _____ fallacy." [Link to Wikipedia list of logical fallacies]
Sorry for the OT post, I'm getting sick of the oft-repeated HN expressions that don't add to the discussion. We can do better.
And I forgot one, "I know I'll be downvoted for this, but..." ;)
Language is built out of little phrases which come to be associated with an understood meaning and tone, and are treated atomically (sometimes the individual words within the phrases go out of currency and are never used alone). We all use these little atoms as shortcuts all the time, because inventing a completely new phrase to represent every thought would be less efficient. Sometimes the phrases were originally technical terms (for instance, many come from sailing or driving carriages or manual farm labor or ancient styles of combat ...) which have been stripped of their original context; other times they come from literature, like the “shocked, shocked” example, or hundreds of examples from Shakespeare plays.
Douglas Hofstadter has written some nice pieces about this topic, e.g. https://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy....
May 20, 2017 (comments)
An internet accurately describes Google's AMP program for what it is -- a barely-disguised attempt to shove more of the internet into itself, the better to track the living shit out of every human being on earth. Hackernews has attempted to avoid this program by using it heavily. Half the comments are Hackernews insisting that it is not only impossible to compete with Google in any way but also insane to try. Some Googles show up to assure everyone that this is for the greater good, and if you'd all just stop talking and get in line the whole process will be nearly painless. A few Hackernews suggest that AMP's feature set can be replicated with a "stop shoving every fucking possible line of javascript into every single pageload" approach, but they are quickly chloroformed and edited out of past Christmas photos.
How is this anything but genius? Next thing you tell me you do not approve of yosefk's excellent C++ FQA?