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This is a facile complaint - the analogy isn't meant to illustrate something about barbers, it's meant to illustrate things about interprocess communication. Y
by fenomas 9y ago
This is a facile complaint - the analogy isn't meant to illustrate something about barbers, it's meant to illustrate things about interprocess communication.
You might as well say "actually life is not like a box of chocolates, because it cannot be purchased at candy shops and doesn't melt when you leave it on your dashboard".
- vacri 9y agoYes, any analogy will break down if you chase it to the fringes, but in this case, the central core of the analogy doesn't work. That makes it a bad analogy - you may as well just explain what's going on directly. Or spend the trivial effort to make a better one.