On the whole debate revolving around gigabytes in the title, I'd like to add: There's a well-substantiated linguistic theory revolving around "maxims of conver

On the whole debate revolving around gigabytes in the title, I'd like to add: There's a well-substantiated linguistic theory revolving around "maxims of conversation". Maxims of conversation are so strongly universal among the speakers of a given language that they become part of the implied meaning of a conversational act. For example the maxim of cooperativitiy implies that when a person sitting in a cold room next to a window is spoken to by a person sitting further from the window and is being told "It's a bit chilly, isn't it", they can take it to mean "Please close the window". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicature#Conversational_implicature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicature#Conversational_imp... Similarly, there are certain maxims of conversation which are part of the language game inherent in the formulation of the title of a blogpost. They are kind of assumed to be boasting about something. So when somebody says "We figured out a way to load a gigabyte's worth of data into a database in a single day" then the being-boastful-about-something maxim is violated. That's why it triggered so many people. And pointing out that this is not something to be boastful about is a perfectly valid thing to do to keep certain facts straight. ...just saying. But, by all means, if you get a thrill out of it, keep downvoting me.