Comment by bongodongobob
2 years ago
The only time I've ever seen source and sink used is in electronics. You may as well call it squeem and flurb, source and sink isn't helping anyone.
2 years ago
The only time I've ever seen source and sink used is in electronics. You may as well call it squeem and flurb, source and sink isn't helping anyone.
Well, this is hacker news, so a generous reading of the comment is that it is being mapped to semantics most of us here fully grok, and not as a general audience rewording for accounting.
Just because someone knows how to build a website doesn't mean they know anything about discrete electronics. I'd wager the majority of this audience doesn't. It's mostly software people.
I've seen it used frequently in the context of data pipelines and stream-processing applications, which is even more applicable to the subject.