I'm always sad when titles get edited to "match the post" in a way that actually removes clarity as to what the linked material is.
A tad older: "And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land." ( Exodus 2:22, e.g. http://www.bartleby.com/108/02/2.html#S2 )
A good portion of the titles in English are taken either from the KJV Bible or Shakespeare, not that there is much difference.
Both have exerted tremendous influences (both overt and subtle) on traditional Western culture.
For my part, I'm always sad when a meta comment that has nothing to do with the content of the post ends up getting voted overwhelmingly to the top. It's less your fault than that of the overwhelming upvoters. But it's an unfortunate glitch that reliably mars HN discussions, and I don't know of a good answer to it.
By the way, the reason we reverted the title in the first place is that the editorialized subtitle immediately provoked a bikeshed debate about the "communities" and whether they're really distinct or not—when the meat of the post is about things like fault tolerance in distributed computing.
I've always wondered if it would be possible to tag comments with tags like "tangent" or "meta" (or whatever else seems good), and then apply sorts based on that (probably in some user selectable way).
> By the way, the reason we reverted the title in the first place is that the editorialized subtitle immediately provoked a bikeshed debate about the "communities" and whether they're really distinct or not—when the meat of the post is about things like fault tolerance in distributed computing.
I disagree that the comment was a bikeshed debate: the article spends several paragraphs (and the first four!) talking about the relationship of the two communities, and the discussion of their relationship (both in the article and here) explained some of the ways that knowledge I knew about math intensive computing (and related technologies, such as GPUs) related to problems I hadn't previously worked on.
Exploring the relationships between subdisciplines, especially closely related ones like these, is a benefit both in the article and in the related discussion.