News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011). Parent comment

Re:A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2... by blaser-waffle on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:12PM (#23325448)
Tons of responses and no one has thrown out a link to the Ribbonfarm article about the Gervais Principle.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

Don't take it too seriously, but there is also many kernels of truth in there.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2... by kgin on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @01:28PM (#23326722)
At first I thought this would just be a cynical joke, but there are a lot of super interesting points in there. Thank you.
[ Parent | on HN ]