alt Hacker NewsIt is always fun (in a broad sense of that word) when I make a comment on an industry I know nothing about and somehow stumble onto a thing that not only has a name but also research. I am sure there is a German word for that feel of discovering something that countless others have already discovered.
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biztos • today at 4:04 AM
> there is a German word
Zeitgeistüberspannungsfreude
taneq • today at 2:47 AM
Any time I invent a cool thing, I go and try and find it online. Usually it's already an established product, which totally validates my feeling that the thing I invented is cool and would be a good product. :D
Occasionally it's (as far as I can tell) a legitimately new 'wow that's obvious' style thing and I consider prototyping it. :)
XKCD calls it the "Lucky 10,000" [0]
[0]: https://xkcd.com/1053/