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Teal_Thanatos comments on Scientist vs. philosopher on conceptual analysis - Less Wrong

10 Post author: lukeprog 20 September 2011 03:10PM

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Comment author: Teal_Thanatos 23 September 2011 12:32:18AM * 2 points [-]

HI, I'm a support software developer. Can I ask where exactly that came from?

Comment author: thomblake 23 September 2011 06:15:54PM 0 points [-]

Also this

Comment author: RichardKennaway 23 September 2011 01:41:22PM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: thomblake 23 September 2011 12:50:33PM 0 points [-]

Urban legend, I think. 87% of all statistics are made up.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 02 November 2011 03:43:51PM 2 points [-]

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)