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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by hinkley on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:09PM (#14561671)
I will don't understand why it's called Poe's Law if he said it in 2005. This phenomenon was well documented on Usenet by the early nineties.
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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by sqeaky on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:22PM (#14561801)
If we called everything that was first described on Usenet as "Usenet's Law" then everything would be Usenet's law, probably even a couple of things in physics.
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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by tripzilch on Friday June 16, 2017 @09:17AM (#14568596)
Also known as Usenet's Law [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14561801

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by qb45 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:31PM (#14561893)
Known as Stigler's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy

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