[HN Gopher] Every Bug Is Shallow If One of Your Readers Is an En...
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       Every Bug Is Shallow If One of Your Readers Is an Entomologist
        
       Author : amadeuspagel
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2022-05-12 16:36 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | 988747 wrote:
       | We should rename original ,,Linus's law" to ,,Linus's fallacy" -
       | especially for things related to security.
        
         | pessimizer wrote:
         | This article is supportive of Linus's Law, so you can't rely on
         | it to make your case for you. Given the existence of
         | etymologists, the odds that one of your readers is an
         | etymologist approach one as the number of eyes approaches the
         | population of Earth.
        
           | jfengel wrote:
           | Etymologists aren't particularly good at fixing bugs, though
           | they'll happily tell you the history of the word "bug".
        
         | gnufx wrote:
         | Sort of, but it's Eric Raymond's fallacy, which should be given
         | as little weight as everything else he proclaims. It's also
         | generally wrong in science, speaking from experience in
         | experimental physics.
        
         | LoveMortuus wrote:
         | Linus' law being, if something can be dropped it will be
         | dropped?
         | 
         | (This is a joke)
        
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