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This article as well as all of the others I have seen on the front page are written by the two authors of a recent biography of Shannon. Smart marketing...
by stagger87 9y ago
This article as well as all of the others I have seen on the front page are written by the two authors of a recent biography of Shannon. Smart marketing...
- aboiXDXD 9y agoi repect you as a hacker repotere i hope you go very far in life
- oxymoron 9y agoYep, pretty intense gerilla marketing on HN. Worked on me though... After the first article I thought "I want to read that at some point." After the second one, I added it to my wishlist. After they got Vincent Cerf to review it in nature I gave up and ordered it. Finished reading it a few weeks ago. A bit short, but well worth its money.
- grzm 9y ago> pretty intense gerilla marketing on HN It doesn't need to be targeted at HN: members of HN are members of the general population, and the publishers/marketers of the book are understandably going to be doing their jobs which includes getting articles written,w which members of HN come across in the course of their lives. It's not surprising they would then share these articles on HN. Say an actor is making appearances on a bunch of different talk shows promoting their upcoming movie. The fact that Alice and Bob find out they happened to see the same actor on different shows while at the water cooler doesn't mean the actor was targeting this particular water cooler or Alice and Bob in particular.