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> You never realise how similarly structured a lot of articles are, until you read one without the same structure :) That's because 99% of those articles are h
by oblio 4y ago
> You never realise how similarly structured a lot of articles are, until you read one without the same structure :)
That's because 99% of those articles are hidden ads, submarine articles (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html).
> "Do jeans help you lose weight?"
> 5000 words later... based no information from <<Levi's executive Ala Bala>>... yes, they might help you, but don't forget to eat your salad.
or:
> How we set up a billion dollar processing system by adopting MiracleLang
> 5000 words of challenges successfully overcome. Not a peep 24 months later to find out if the maintenance burden killed the company, because the principal engineer that pushed MiracleLang is not at CompetingCorp, pitching MiracleLang for another project.
This one is an actual unfiltered article, I think, no survivor bias, i.e. not an article only listing wins.
The star is kind of example. It's a half baked and frankly dumb reference no PR-reviewed article would <<ever>> put in there.