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I would have guessed "Dependency" https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/, but it did not even make the top 10
by luca3v 3y ago
I would have guessed "Dependency" https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/, but it did not even make the top 10
- dj_mc_merlin 3y agoI've heard people refer to OSS devs as "a random guy in Alaska" before, altough that joke is probably older than the comic.
- ufo 3y agoPossibly because it's newer and had less time to pick up citations.
- amenghra 3y ago(author of the blog post) I would have loved to take into account each comic's age and compute some kind of normalization/weight but never got around to doing that. It's hard to do this kind of normalization correctly since HN's population size isn't a constant over time.
- clbrmbr 3y agoThis is how I feel about the public NTP pool on which so many IoT devices depend.