(author of the blog post) I would have loved to take into account each comic's age and compute some kind of normalization/weight but never got around to doing that. It's hard to do this kind of normalization correctly since HN's population size isn't a constant over time.
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I would have guessed "Dependency" https://xkcd.com/2347/, but it did not even make the top 10
I've heard people refer to OSS devs as "a random guy in Alaska" before, altough that joke is probably older than the comic.
This is how I feel about the public NTP pool on which so many IoT devices depend.
Possibly because it's newer and had less time to pick up citations.
(author of the blog post) I would have loved to take into account each comic's age and compute some kind of normalization/weight but never got around to doing that. It's hard to do this kind of normalization correctly since HN's population size isn't a constant over time.