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> Why on earth would every single person on HN who happened to click on that link know what `pandas` is? How would they even know whose blog it is on? It's the
by Blackthorn 9y ago
> Why on earth would every single person on HN who happened to click on that link know what `pandas` is? How would they even know whose blog it is on?
It's the author of Pandas's blog. He didn't submit it to HN, someone else did. It's totally reasonable to expect that if people are reading his, the author of Pandas, blog, then they already know what Pandas is.
- phaemon 9y ago> He didn't submit it to HN, someone else did. What difference does that make? It's still here, right? So people are still reading it from here, right? >It's totally reasonable to expect that if people are reading his, the author of Pandas, blog, then they already know what Pandas No, not when it's linked from elsewhere. Which is what happens with blogs. Like it was right now.
- wpietri 9y agoSorry, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect that. It's the web. People link to things. Which is why I think it's reasonable to add a link somewhere in the first paragraph to context.