Re:Farewell Stack Exchange
by dpark on Monday February 06, 2012 @07:48PM
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I find this metaphor interesting, because in a marathon, you run the entire time. At least if you want to win, or even race competitively. You might not be sprinting, but you're running at a hard pace until the finish line,
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"What type of runner can run full speed from the very start of the race? That's right. Someone who runs very short distances. But as programmers, we are smarter than that. We just fire the starter pistol again every 100 yards. I don’t know why runners haven't figured that out." --Rich Hickey
Can you expand on that?
He's mocking the concept of a 'sprint' [1]
Have you heard of an ultrarun before? It's a run that's longer than a marathon, maybe 50 miles, maybe 100 miles. It's all dependent on the local geography.
You don't run those at a fast pace, you complete them in like 8-11 hours. Perhaps that's a better metaphor.
Does this make it safe to assume that neither of the commenters here run marathons?