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I'm not sure if this is satire. 1 + 1 = 3 ? Orwell will be turning in his grave.

by sajid 11y ago

roasm 11y ago
I've seen a slide where 1 + 1 = 2, then the 2 is crossed off, then there's a 3, then the 3 is crossed off then there's an 11. So honestly, after I read that, I thought clearly Hubspot didn't go far enough. That math slide was followed by another slide with "synergistic" on it.
- sdenton4 11y ago
  11 is 3 in binary. That's kind of an awesome joke.
  - HappyTypist 11y ago
    Or JavaScript 1 + "1".
  - chris_wot 11y ago
    Great binary. If you must do things in base 2, then in fact: 01 + 01 = 10
    - altstar 11y ago
      He/she is right, 11 in binary is 3 in decimal. 11 does not mean 1 + 1.
      - chris_wot 11y ago
        It's corporate doublespeak. Orwell was worried about the State, but he was on the wrong track - it's corporations we should now be concerned about.
pfitzsimmons 11y ago
I worked there, it wasn't anything as bad as what he makes it out to be. It was just shorthand for saying, "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts." Our whole sales pitch was that we were all-in-one software. So instead of running one system for your blog, another system for your home page, another system for email, another system for analytics, another system for your contacts database, etc, etc, you would just run HubSpot, and when all the tools work together you get much better results then when they are separated. To make good on that sales pitch, we had to be constantly thinking of ways of how we could add value by integrating pieces together and making things work well together. Hence we were told to always be thinking about how to make 1 + 1 equal 3.
- chris_wot 11y ago
  "In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"
- dennisgorelik 11y ago
  The right notation would be: f(1) + f(1) = f(3)
  - RealityVoid 11y ago
    More like: f(1) + f(1) < f(1+1)
imron 11y ago
> 1 + 1 = 3? They just haven't graduated yet ;-)

I'm not sure if this is satire. 1 + 1 = 3 ? Orwell will be turning in his grave.

by sajid 11y ago

I'm not sure if this is satire. 1 + 1 = 3 ? Orwell will be turning in his grave.

roasm 11y ago

I've seen a slide where 1 + 1 = 2, then the 2 is crossed off, then there's a 3, then the 3 is crossed off then there's an 11. So honestly, after I read that, I thought clearly Hubspot didn't go far enough. That math slide was followed by another slide with "synergistic" on it.

sdenton4 11y ago
11 is 3 in binary. That's kind of an awesome joke.
- HappyTypist 11y ago
  Or JavaScript 1 + "1".
- chris_wot 11y ago
  Great binary. If you must do things in base 2, then in fact: 01 + 01 = 10
  - altstar 11y ago
    He/she is right, 11 in binary is 3 in decimal. 11 does not mean 1 + 1.
    - chris_wot 11y ago
      It's corporate doublespeak. Orwell was worried about the State, but he was on the wrong track - it's corporations we should now be concerned about.

pfitzsimmons 11y ago

I worked there, it wasn't anything as bad as what he makes it out to be. It was just shorthand for saying, "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts." Our whole sales pitch was that we were all-in-one software. So instead of running one system for your blog, another system for your home page, another system for email, another system for analytics, another system for your contacts database, etc, etc, you would just run HubSpot, and when all the tools work together you get much better results then when they are separated. To make good on that sales pitch, we had to be constantly thinking of ways of how we could add value by integrating pieces together and making things work well together. Hence we were told to always be thinking about how to make 1 + 1 equal 3.

chris_wot 11y ago
"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"
dennisgorelik 11y ago
The right notation would be: f(1) + f(1) = f(3)
- RealityVoid 11y ago
  More like: f(1) + f(1) < f(1+1)

imron 11y ago

> 1 + 1 = 3? They just haven't graduated yet ;-)