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MattJ100 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a pa...

A classic case of the Scunthorpe problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

In this case the substring is part of the author's name. Such names are not at all uncommon.

hinkley 3 months ago | [–]

Alistair Cockburn is one of the signatories of the Agile Manifesto.

You may have heard of him more recently with the Hexagonal Architecture approach.

asciii 3 months ago | | [–]

I just saw something similar with a user on here dangsux...

Apparently might be Dang's UX and not against the Mod. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

drewsberry 3 months ago | [–]

There are dozens of us!

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