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rini17yesterday at 6:23 PM4 repliesview on HN

That glorious day when I explained to my boss what wiki is and that we should have one internally, he fired "viki" into google, with smoothly honed muscle memory clicked first result..and got full screen of poon.


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Kurajyesterday at 6:33 PM

At least you weren't the guy hitting a wall when trying to get a testing library integrated because it was named Testacular

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Izkatayesterday at 7:38 PM

When I told a co-worker about https://pypi.org/project/voluptuous/ he immediately searched for the name alone, got really wide-eyed and closed the tab, then told us not to do the same.

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patrickmayyesterday at 9:43 PM

I asked to have LaTeX installed at one site, several years ago. The first Google results were eye-opening.

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zzrrtyesterday at 10:15 PM

What was the first result? Mine is Rakuten Viki, a streaming service focused on Asian dramas that aren’t like what you described.