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My guess is that it stopped because there are no longer any HN readers who both like xkcd and don't check it anyway. We reached xkcd-awareness saturation a cou
by jcdreads 17y ago
My guess is that it stopped because there are no longer any HN readers who both like xkcd and don't check it anyway. We reached xkcd-awareness saturation a couple of years ago.
- Kirby 17y agoI think there's a reason to post this one in particular - to set up a comments thread on HN about it. I kind of thought it had harsher implications for Academia - for every self-congratulatory paper of something new, it's already been done a hundred times in the "Real World" in an unheralded source control repository.