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sharkjacobstoday at 7:34 AM2 repliesview on HN

Are you saying this because it's an evergreen joke or because you really think there hasn't been meaningful progress in the field since 1996?

Duke Nukem Forever was release fifteen years ago. Some things never happen until they suddenly do.

The wolf really does eat the boy at the end of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.


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emil-lptoday at 7:46 AM

But Duke Nukem was developed with visible progress.

We are still not factoring 21, let alone 35, let alone numbers with thousands of digits.

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watwuttoday at 7:59 AM

The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a story about a boy who have seen a wolf, successfully threatened the wolf away by causing a commotion in a disbelieving village. One day the disbelieving village refused to show up, boy was eaten and thus proven correct.

But as it happens in real life politics too, people who were just proven they were wrong continued to blame the boy.

The story is told from the point of view of a villagers trying to hide their culpability by blaming the victim.

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