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This is kind of a weird article to make frontpage of HN

onychomys 5y ago
Who among us hasn't dreamed of deleting the IDEs from our computers and going off to be a shepherd? This dog is living the life we all wish we had.
- MangoCoffee 5y ago
  nah, our instinct to herding bugs and new features is too strong.
- a3n 5y ago
  Or a lumberjack. In the forests of British Columbia.
ergot_vacation 5y ago
It is. I mean don't get me wrong, I got a sensible chuckle out of it. But this isn't really technology related in any way, unless the dog has a startup we don't know about.
- ethanbond 5y ago
  Dogs themselves are very much a technology for humans. As evidenced by their “instinct” to do useful things for us like herding! Certainly stretching a bit, but the article is an interesting commentary on one of our most primitive technologies. (Or you can consider the selective breeding process itself to be the technology powering this)
  - throwaw29125432 5y ago
    So its a Dang Dog! (herds sheep like Dang herds us!)
- 0-_-0 5y ago
  It's a sheep herding startup
endlessvoid94 5y ago
Maybe HN is being footprinted
abdullahkhalids 5y ago
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milesvp 5y ago
I’d be worried if it happened more often. But it’s not totally out of character historically for HN. I’d say this is sort of interesting. I don’t know my dog breeds but my first thought was this dog must have some sheep dog heritage. I’m amazed looking at my children how many of their thought processes, how their brains are wired, seem to be genetically inherited. And, like what kind of work would my daughter naturally gravitate towards if she was ejected from a car crash at an equivalent age of this dog…
- ekimekim 5y ago
  > my first thought was this dog must have some sheep dog heritage The article says it's a Border Collie, which is an extremely smart, extremely capable sheepdog. My family had border collies and with zero training or interaction with other dogs from which they could've learned the behaviour, they'd naturally try to round us up.
shadowgovt 5y ago
Watching the story, they mention that social media is how the farm-owner discovered the dog that was bothering his sheep was the missing dog from the crash-story and was able to find the owners. This could have happened without social media, but it was a significant facilitator in getting all parties in contact with each other.

Who among us hasn't dreamed of deleting the IDEs from our computers and going off to be a shepherd? This dog is living the life we all wish we had.

MangoCoffee 5y ago
nah, our instinct to herding bugs and new features is too strong.
a3n 5y ago
Or a lumberjack. In the forests of British Columbia.

ergot_vacation 5y ago

It is. I mean don't get me wrong, I got a sensible chuckle out of it. But this isn't really technology related in any way, unless the dog has a startup we don't know about.

ethanbond 5y ago
Dogs themselves are very much a technology for humans. As evidenced by their “instinct” to do useful things for us like herding! Certainly stretching a bit, but the article is an interesting commentary on one of our most primitive technologies. (Or you can consider the selective breeding process itself to be the technology powering this)
- throwaw29125432 5y ago
  So its a Dang Dog! (herds sheep like Dang herds us!)
0-_-0 5y ago
It's a sheep herding startup

endlessvoid94 5y ago

Maybe HN is being footprinted

abdullahkhalids 5y ago

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

milesvp 5y ago

I’d be worried if it happened more often. But it’s not totally out of character historically for HN. I’d say this is sort of interesting. I don’t know my dog breeds but my first thought was this dog must have some sheep dog heritage. I’m amazed looking at my children how many of their thought processes, how their brains are wired, seem to be genetically inherited. And, like what kind of work would my daughter naturally gravitate towards if she was ejected from a car crash at an equivalent age of this dog…

ekimekim 5y ago
> my first thought was this dog must have some sheep dog heritage The article says it's a Border Collie, which is an extremely smart, extremely capable sheepdog. My family had border collies and with zero training or interaction with other dogs from which they could've learned the behaviour, they'd naturally try to round us up.

shadowgovt 5y ago

Watching the story, they mention that social media is how the farm-owner discovered the dog that was bothering his sheep was the missing dog from the crash-story and was able to find the owners. This could have happened without social media, but it was a significant facilitator in getting all parties in contact with each other.