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It's hard to learn about things nobody discusses. I've been around for a while and can't say I've ever noticed those being mentioned anywhere. If you wanted to
by Lammy 6y ago
It's hard to learn about things nobody discusses. I've been around for a while and can't say I've ever noticed those being mentioned anywhere. If you wanted to write something longer about it I'd really love to read it :)
- prepend 6y agoThere’s books and web sites and stuff. Learning doesn’t just come from discussion, but research. (Edit to change “learning” to “research” because autocorrect changed it and I didn’t notice until now) If you haven’t read ESR’s Cathedral and the Bazaar, it’s pretty good and will go into some of the background.
- Lammy 6y agoThe stories that get repeated are the ones that get remembered. Even if the information is out there for those who dig, I believe that storage and recall are fundamentally the same thing when it comes to our human memory :)
- zepto 6y agoTo be fair, we used to have search engines that were good for exploring all kinds of history, but not so much anymore.
- prepend 6y agoYeah, but all the sites that had this info are all around now. I like the book recommendation threads on HN for learning stuff. What’s funny to me is that some of this history is so ingrained that it doesn’t make sense to discuss it. It would be like talking about how great George Washington is all the time.