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Ask HN: What are some of the best tech analogies you've ever read/heard?
I recently saw a post on HN about the paint analogy for the Diffie Hellman cryptography solution [1] and it was one of the best explanations for something I've seen that was very easy to digest. I was hoping to find more of these analogies! (What specifically brought this question was, I was hoping to find a good one for the OSI model).
[1]https://youtu.be/YEBfamv-_do
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- gravy 8y agoAnother one to start that I just read: "We use pointers because it's easier to give someone an address to your home than to give a copy of your home to everyone." https://stackoverflow.com/questions/162941/why-use-pointers#comment28383429_162941 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/162941/why-use-pointers#...