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A man jumps off a 20 story building. As he passes an open window on the 6th floor, people on the floor hear him exclaim "so far, so good!".

• komali2 10y ago
  I don't get it
  • mrkgnao 10y ago
    The measure of success as a function of how far you've fallen is basically constant throughout and then suddenly changes to 0 (or -inf, or whatever).
    • metalon 10y ago
      Maybe the Heaviside step function would be fitting :-)
      • mrkgnao 10y ago
        It's more like the delta function/"function" restricted to the nonnegative reals.
  • _cereal 10y ago
    I suppose it's a quote from La Haine (1995) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/ > Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land!
    • hyperbovine 10y ago
      "Jusqu'ici tout va bien" It sounds so nice in French. Amazing film, by the way.
    • _raul 10y ago
      I remember hearing it from Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven when I was a kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7GP3l5znc8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7GP3l5znc8
• DonHopkins 10y ago
  You might get lucky like the guy in the Hudsucker Proxy! Spoiler warning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P52eqNKCpYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P52eqNKCpYc