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With an introduction on the context and on the terms it would use in the rest of the article, a bit like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37034987 https://n
by hk__2 3y ago
With an introduction on the context and on the terms it would use in the rest of the article, a bit like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37034987 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37034987 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37034996 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37034996.
- HumblyTossed 3y agoOkay, but for people who DO know about basketball, this would make the article laborious.
- ghaff 3y agoIf you write something you assume some base level of reader knowledge. As you say, if you go back to first principles for everything, 1.) You now have 1,000 words of boilerplate that will make the average reader turn the page very quickly and 2.) It probably still won't work for someone with zero knowledge and probably not much more interest.
- hk__2 3y ago> Okay, but for people who DO know about basketball, this would make the article laborious. Well, then let’s close HN since every single article will be laborious for the people who DO know about the subject.