To me what is noteworthy is that there's a canon at all. There's none for construction, or law, or medicine. There might be very small ones for politics and fin

To me what is noteworthy is that there's a canon at all. There's none for construction, or law, or medicine. There might be very small ones for politics and finance. The author is skeptical that the canon actually existed before pc posted about it, but I had read a lot of them, and I don't think any would be too surprising to people who read HN or SSC. And there's plenty of influence from Slashdot before that, and the Whole Earth Catalog before that.