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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by jessermeyer on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @12:08PM (#13599913)
Because it's a Strange Loop.
Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by theoh on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @01:29PM (#13600691)
Hmm, yes, I can see a product idea here: Klein bottle waste baskets.

When your waste basket is nonorientable, life becomes much simpler. Everything is both inside and outside the trash.

Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by vram22 on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @02:44PM (#13601372)
He he, good one. That reminds me of a joke I once made, in some relevant context, referencing Heisenberg and Pauli, but I'm uncertain what it was now, so I'll exclude it from here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Pauli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg

Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by taormina on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:26PM (#13601698)
For anyone missing the joke, his follow-up book attempting to better convey some of the same ideas is called "I Am a Strange Loop".
Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by mathetic on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @01:37PM (#13600765)
Nope. Strange loops are not by definition not intentionally circular (while a circular graph in a file system is in this case). He makes that clear I think in the final chapter of GEB.