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The author is taking this analogy far too literally. What else can you really say?
by fndrplayer13 12y ago
The author is taking this analogy far too literally. What else can you really say?
- skrebbel 12y agoThe blog post isn't about that at all. Did you read it to the end, or did you ctrl+tab to write a middlebrow dismissal on HN after the 5th paragraph?
- muyuu 12y agoAnd he missed the fact that it's roughly 9.5 months even when everything goes swimmingly (40 to 41 weeks). In some oriental countries like Japan, they talk about 10 months pregnancies not 9 like in the West, where we count since the first missing menstruation.
- HCIdivision17 12y agoI think the whole thing works out well. You can't speed up the sequential bits by throwing people at it, but you _can_ increase the chance of _finding_ elusive sequential bits (so long as people are already familiar - it can take longer for strangers to have a baby than a married couple! [citation needed]). And I think your comment balances it out nicely with: and it's already going to take longer than quoted anyway!