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Why is TRUE == “TRUE” in R?
- dalke 14y agoI learned today a reason why people post links on HN and other sites to SO. SO encourages this through their badge system. This link is to http://stackoverflow.com/q/14932015/561309 http://stackoverflow.com/q/14932015/561309 and user 561309 is http://stackoverflow.com/users/561309/laurent http://stackoverflow.com/users/561309/laurent , who is the person who posted this link. An relvant badge is "Shared a link to a question that was visited by 1000 unique IP addresses." The laurent123456 account, as anyone can see, has a habit of posting to SO/StackExchange sites. Someone who found the topic interesting and wasn't seeking badge gratification would have used the URL http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14932015/why-true-true-in-r http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14932015/why-true-true-in... instead of the version with the affiliate ID in the URL. I want to see things on HN which are interesting in their own right, and will now view SO links with affiliate IDs as advertisement, and flag accordingly.