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The Clockwise/Spiral Rule
- stephencanon 13y agoNeeds repeating every time this comes up: the “spiral rule” is nonsense. https://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=5080096 https://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=5080096
- pravnar 13y agoAh.. thanks for sending that thread.
- sp332 13y agoI always figured it was a joke anyway. I mean, how can you have "clockwise" in a single dimension?
- stephencanon 13y agoI’ve always assumed that it’s a joke as well, but that doesn’t seem to stop the gullible from believing it.
- sp332 13y agoYeah, Poe's Law in action I guess.
- tzs 13y agoIs there a reason you linked to ycombinator.org instead of ycombinator.com?
- stephencanon 13y agogoogle’d to find my old posting, and didn’t notice the domain. Too late to edit now.