OK, nice link, but was there something in particular you had in mind when you posted this, or did you just assume we'd figure it out (in which case I question if you read the entry)...
Just thought it was interesting and that it might interest HN as well. There's nothing more to it! In fact, I'm currently going through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases and this one grabbed my attention as it is a bias technical people are particularly vulnerable to (we often hear about engineers' difficulties at clearly communicating with customers/management/investors). Also related: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Inferential_distance
I think it's relevant to a lot of things posted here. For example, any programming language advocacy article based on non-objective engineering qualities like 'here's a benchmark'.
Well, it's evident to you that having all methods/functions/X be mockable/pure/Y is the best thing since sliced bread because your bacon has been saved so many times by testing/referential transparency/Z; but to someone who has not been saved?
You could ask that question to just about every person who submits a link to HN. Why do Wikipedia article submissions attract these comments? There are nearly 4 million articles in the English namespace alone. Is it not reasonable that some of them may occasionally pique a person's interest and make them want to spark some commentary around the topic? I've done it.
I found that this often applies to software developers. As someone who writes the code and understands the product internally, you lose the ability to relate to the end-user. You just don't see things the way end-user sees them. This is the reason having a non-technical co-founder on board is useful -- their mind is uncorrupted by the knowledge of internals.
This reminds me of the "Monty Hall Problem". If you have taken a little statistics and learned about independent events it seems much more likely that you will stand your ground and stick with your initial selection, sure that it is the right way to go, while remembering that getting two coin flips of heads in a row has no bearing on the odds of the third coin flip. When actually you are confronted with an entirely different kind of problem and simply don't realize it. Had you known nothing about independent events you might be more open to changing your selection.
It's all brainwashing and behavior modification bullshit.
Do you really thing there's not one Repubilcan on reddit?
Do you really think I got 10,000 LoseThos downloads and no users?
Atheists are a minority in the US, though, you don't see that on Digg or Reddit.
So, the biggest site, reddit, gets 3,000 comments at most, yet ther are 7,000,000,000 people in the world.
God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\BIBLE.TXT
ke her prey; and it shall be the
wages for his army.
29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he
served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.
29:21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud
forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of
them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
30:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 30:2 Son of man,
prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye,
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[ 6.6 ms ] story [ 26.8 ms ] threadTo add a little to the discussion:
Yihong Ding wrote an interesting article titled "The Curse of Knowledge and the Semantic Web" in 2007 for my (now very much on-hiatus) blog Semantic Focus: http://www.semanticfocus.com/blog/entry/title/the-curse-of-k...
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It's all brainwashing and behavior modification bullshit.
Do you really thing there's not one Repubilcan on reddit?
Do you really think I got 10,000 LoseThos downloads and no users?
Atheists are a minority in the US, though, you don't see that on Digg or Reddit.
So, the biggest site, reddit, gets 3,000 comments at most, yet ther are 7,000,000,000 people in the world.
God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\BIBLE.TXT
ke her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.
29:21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
30:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 30:2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye,