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FYI I knew the reference, but was wondering if the agitated OP did. You explained it better than I would have. "To really understand something REALLY well".
by lhnn 14y ago
FYI I knew the reference, but was wondering if the agitated OP did. You explained it better than I would have.
"To really understand something REALLY well".
- RegEx 14y agoPerhaps it's just been by a series of improbable coincidences that in the years I have read forums, IRC logs, books, and articles, I've only seen the term here on HN.
- lobster_johnson 14y agoCould be a case of Baader-Meinhof [1], or maybe you haven't been socializing in right forums. The word "grok" has been in popular use on Usenet since the early 1990s at least, probably before, since it's from a 1970s Heinlein novel. [1] http://wikibin.org/articles/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.html http://wikibin.org/articles/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.html