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Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by uwydr on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:06AM (#21523557)
That is how it works here, you collect upvotes if you use fancy words. That's why everybody uses the word "orthogonal" here all the time. Have you ever seen that word anywhere else?
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Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by thaumasiotes on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:26AM (#21523697)
> That's why everybody uses the word "orthogonal" here all the time. Have you ever seen that word anywhere else?

Yes, frequently. It is common in various areas of math -- mathematical background is not something "normal people" usually flaunt, but there are good reasons to expect programmers to have much more such background than average.

A good rule of thumb is that people are probably using the words they use because those words make sense to them. See the first panel here: http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2009/1/2...

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Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by staticautomatic on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:15AM (#21523620)
Yes. I'll take orthogonal any day over HN things like "foot gun" or the cryptic invocation of so and so's "law"
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Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by reallydontask on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:08AM (#21523580)
isn't that orthogonal to the discussion?
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Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by vectorEQ on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:38AM (#21523783)
i'm orthogonally inclined to disagree, but mainly because i'm sitting on a chair
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Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by MiroF on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:25AM (#21524392)
> Have you ever seen that word anywhere else?

Unfortunately far too often both in tech and in CS academia (and I'm talking about informal conversations ie. this is an 'orthogonal idea')

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