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Innovator - To help me ride my bike on dangerous mountain trails, I made a sturdy frame and fat, knobby tires. HN - The bike is the wrong tool for transportati
by panarky 7y ago
Innovator - To help me ride my bike on dangerous mountain trails, I made a sturdy frame and fat, knobby tires.
HN - The bike is the wrong tool for transportation in mountains. For absolute safety you must only use a cable car or funicular.
Innovator - But cable cars and funiculars are impractical for the mountain trails I want to ride, and my current road race bike with weak frame and skinny tires is dangerous off-road.
HN - A sturdy frame and fat, knobby tires only provide the illusion of safety, which is worse than no safety at all. Never go to the mountains unless you're in a cable car or funicular.
- eljimmy 7y agoNot a good analogy to compare tire sizes for mountain biking to information security in Javascript. You should be comparing bicycle locks.
- penagwin 7y agocough it doesn't really matter cough Innovator - To help communicate with other HN readers, I created an analogy about mountain bikes and their tire size! HN - Not a good analogy to compare tire sizes for mountain biking to information security in Javascript. You should be comparing bicycle locks. Innovator - My analogy still makes sense though? Consider my physical safety to be roughly equivalent to information security. While bike locks could certainly work for the analogy as well they just weren't the choice we decided to go with. HN - Your analogy falls apart with edge cases X, Y and Z', bike locks have been used for analogies since.....
- osrec 7y agoReminds me of a recent discussion I had on HN! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19873055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19873055 This particular response really made me chuckle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19873801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19873801 My analogy related to SQL, but we ended up talking about the complexities of physics...
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoWhat color is the bike? I suggest camo for added security.
- zachrose 7y agoForget the bike, what color of shed are you going to keep it in?
- malvosenior 7y agoMore like: Innovator - My fuse is blown so I'll replace it with a copper tube to get it to work. HN - That's a bad idea, it's a fire hazard and you're putting yourself at risk. Innovator - HN is full of no fun pendants. -- It's in-browser JS encryption we're talking about. You should not trust it for many, many reasons.