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You're making a pedantic special case correction to a generally correct truth. This is not an endearing trait. Everybody knows that a statement such as the one
by pja 12y ago
You're making a pedantic special case correction to a generally correct truth. This is not an endearing trait.
Everybody knows that a statement such as the one the parent post made will have special case exceptions: The point is that exponential growth should be the default & any other choice requires justification.
Asserting this is not a "misguided rant".
- nnethercote 12y ago> Everybody knows that a statement such as the one the parent post made will have special case exceptions Thank you for reading with a spirit of intellectual generosity. When I write posts like this I always wonder about how many qualifications and weasel words I should add just in case it makes Hacker News and the nitpickers come out in force. In this case I wrote things like "A strategy that is usually better is exponential growth" but still many of the comments are polite variations on "exponential isn't best in all circumstances, you idiot".
- Someone 12y agoInstead of weasel words, [RFC 2119] should be sufficient (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt) (Google also gave me http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6919 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6919, which I did not know about yet. The third month of the year often sees remarkable productivity, culminating in superb output in the beginning of the fourth month)