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> Putting the storage in the cloud is completely orthogonal to this ideology. Both latency & simplicity will suffer dramatically. I'm confused by your usage of
by codethief 3y ago
> Putting the storage in the cloud is completely orthogonal to this ideology. Both latency & simplicity will suffer dramatically.
I'm confused by your usage of the term "orthogonal". In my experience, it is used to express that something is independent of something else, similarly to how in mathematics orthogonal vectors are linearly independent and thus form a basis of their linear span. Here, however, it seems you mean to say that "putting storage in the cloud runs counter to this ideology"?
- caseyohara 3y agoI see "orthogonal" used quite frequently on HN. I remember reading a comment here that explained it something like: > Ironically, the meaning of "orthogonal" has become orthogonal to the real meaning because now it can mean both "perpendicular" and "parallel", both "at odds" and "unrelated" Edit: found it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997093 (my memory was pretty close)