Without confirmation bias, would that actually have helped? I’m certain I don’t know what that would look to someone who didn’t know what I was going for. But I have the Illusion of Transparency on my mind since I saw someone catch it while trying to help someone with it.
Yes—I’d suspect that the phrase as used in the top search result was the canonical version, then search for that instead, and find it had a lot more hits than the quoted original search and the first reference is repeated several times.
It was totally non sequitur. Also very old. Maybe obscure.
http://www.bash.org/?10739
I think it’s still in the top 200 quotes on the site.
Oh, first google result if I hadn’t used quotes. Duh.
Without confirmation bias, would that actually have helped? I’m certain I don’t know what that would look to someone who didn’t know what I was going for. But I have the Illusion of Transparency on my mind since I saw someone catch it while trying to help someone with it.
Yes—I’d suspect that the phrase as used in the top search result was the canonical version, then search for that instead, and find it had a lot more hits than the quoted original search and the first reference is repeated several times.
I meant, would that have told you what you originally meant to find out.
Did you only want to know where it came from?
No, I didn’t only want to know where it came from.
Yes, it’s clear from context in the link that it doesn’t mean anything.