Teal_Thanatos comments on Scientist vs. philosopher on conceptual analysis

Teal_Thanatos 23 Sep 2011 0:32 UTC
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HI, I’m a support software developer. Can I ask where exactly that came from?
- thomblake 23 Sep 2011 18:15 UTC
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  Also this
- Richard_Kennaway 23 Sep 2011 13:41 UTC
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  Possibly related is this:
  
  There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
  
  Tim Bray, quoting Phil Karlton. This is as close to a definitive source as there is.
- thomblake 23 Sep 2011 12:50 UTC
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  Urban legend, I think. 87% of all statistics are made up.
  - Luke_A_Somers 2 Nov 2011 15:43 UTC
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    More than 99% of all statistics are made up… I know—I programmed a ‘make up statistics’ function which produced a randomly generated statistic every few microseconds, and ran it for a year.
    
    (not really)