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It's remarkably strange that someone who appears to be blogging semi-professionally thinks it's reasonable to publish an article of this sort without a date att
by mjw1007 5y ago
It's remarkably strange that someone who appears to be blogging semi-professionally thinks it's reasonable to publish an article of this sort without a date attached.
Maybe Verilog doesn't change much, but statements like "Commercial vendors are mostly moving in the other direction" and "There have been a number of attempts [...] but they've all fizzled out" are date-sensitive.
- ksec 5y ago>It's remarkably strange In the old days there was a movement / trend / opinion / hype cycle ( or whatever you want to call it ) that articles without date was a way to make it ever green.
- misnome 5y agoI wonder if this is similar reasons to why lots of CS papers seem to never have the date on?
- butlerm 5y agoSome academic types seem to believe that no paper should ever bear a date other than the date of formal publication. Not quite sure why that is, the date of a draft seems like incredibly helpful information to me.
- hobofan 5y agoYes, especially when trying to reconstruct the timeline and context of related research, to help understand the methodology and implicit (lack of) reasoning. With time context one can often go from "why would they do it like that?" to, "given that X wasn't discovered at the time, it makes sense that they did it like that".
- why_only_15 5y agoIf you go to danluu.com you can see a date attached there.
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoIt was submitted by mrintellectual.