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Titus Winters is actually the person who named this "Hyrum's Law" and popularized it as such.
by pkasting 3y ago
Titus Winters is actually the person who named this "Hyrum's Law" and popularized it as such.
- yau8edq12i 3y agoHyrum still made a website called "Hyrum's Law." That's just graceless, at best.
- TwentyPosts 3y agoEh. Someone named it after him, and the name stuck. It's a good concept. Why shouldn't he? What does it matter? Who's harmed by this?
- marliechiller 3y agoNoone has to be harmed for it to be graceless, its just an opinion
- kookamamie 3y agoMy thoughts, exactly. A law, really? A domain dedicated for this? Seems someone really wants their name in the CS history books.
- medler 3y agoThis is a common pattern in history: - Person 1 makes an observation that they assert is true - Person 2 refers to this observation as “Person 1’s Law” for convenience when discussing the observation and whether or not it is true. There’s nothing wrong or “graceless” with Person 1 then using the term themselves, even for the purpose of arguing in favor of their assertion (which is what this web page is doing). Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
- keybored 3y agoYeah this is just medler’s Law in action.