Comment by yau8edq12i
1 year ago
If I understand correctly, it's the actual guy named "Hyrum" who made this website called "Hyrum's law"...? Geez.
1 year ago
If I understand correctly, it's the actual guy named "Hyrum" who made this website called "Hyrum's law"...? Geez.
Titus Winters is actually the person who named this "Hyrum's Law" and popularized it as such.
Hyrum still made a website called "Hyrum's Law." That's just graceless, at best.
This is a common pattern in history:
- Person 1 makes an observation that they assert is true
- Person 2 refers to this observation as “Person 1’s Law” for convenience when discussing the observation and whether or not it is true.
There’s nothing wrong or “graceless” with Person 1 then using the term themselves, even for the purpose of arguing in favor of their assertion (which is what this web page is doing).
Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
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Eh. Someone named it after him, and the name stuck. It's a good concept. Why shouldn't he? What does it matter? Who's harmed by this?
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My thoughts, exactly. A law, really? A domain dedicated for this? Seems someone really wants their name in the CS history books.