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Unless I miss something, having this type of local news on the Hacker News homepage is surprising. IMHO, it falls under the category of "boat programming" (htt
by stared 2y ago
Unless I miss something, having this type of local news on the Hacker News homepage is surprising.
IMHO, it falls under the category of "boat programming" (https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/14486/174092 https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/14486/174092). That is, it is only thanks to the "Bay Area woman" that it grabbed some attention of the Bay Area-affiliated crowd (if it was a "Budapest woman", it would be treated, factfully, as local news).
In particular, it falls short of the HN guidelines of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".
- lolinder 2y agoI have no ties to the bay area, I upvoted it because the mistake was a classic off by one error. > “Mr. Lawrence testified he built the home on Lot 114 instead of Lot 115 because he counted out the lots using the telephone poles,” the court order read. “But he built the home on the wrong side of the telephone pole.”
- buggeryorkshire 2y agoI do love the way you segue this into tech territory by pointing out it is indeed a classic off by 1 error. Bravo
- jdyer9 2y agoI have no affiliation to either locality, but I thought this whole saga was interesting from a legal perspective. The sheer audacity of the developer to sue for unjust enrichment. I think it also would have been a pretty important case if it hadn't gone this way, as others pointed out, it would have opened a lot of potential avenues for developers to abuse neighbors or steal land.