on Two Things:
1. There are only two things you need to know for any subject
2. When there appears to be more than two, divide the subject
Two Things
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#32on Two Things: 1. There are only two things you need to know for any subject 2. When there appears to be more than two, divide the subject
on The Correctness of Two Things:
1. There are only two things you need to know for any subject
2. Sometimes there are exceptions
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#33Hate to break it to the HN crowd, but for most subjects there are really more than two things you need to know. This article is nonsense.
I think it's meant to be humorous, perhaps a light-hearted source of insight.
Boiling complex fields down to flippant levels of brevity helps the summariser to develop deeper understanding. It can also save a lot of time.
See also: "Desert island" lists of books, movies, music, art, software etc.
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#34on Two Things: 1. There are only two things you need to know for any subject 2. When there appears to be more than two, divide the subject
Shorter list:
1. There are two things you need to know for two things.
2. One of them is recursion.
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#35Hate to break it to the HN crowd, but for most subjects there are really more than two things you need to know. This article is nonsense.
I don't think you read the article. It is only saying that there are two things you need to know in jest. If you looked at the article, you'd see that many fields, such as CS, have more than one set of "two things" that you need to know.
I will not comment on whether most fields can really be boiled down to just two notes, but you'll notice that the author states that one of the "things" about his rule of two things, is that everyone you ask will give you a different two. Since the multiple CS entries are all (I think) from different people, they do not violate the author's assertion.
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#36MIT graduate I met 30 years ago told me he had a professor tell him that there are 3 things in life:
1. things divisible by 3
2. things not divisible by 3
3. other thingsRe: Two Things
#37Two things about Hacker News: 1. You will spend too much time here 2. You will discover noprocrast
1. You will discover noprocrast
2. It won't make a difference.
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#38For Biology, "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory
Instead I would say: 1. Some things can replicate better than others. 2. Things replicate imperfectly, causing change over time.
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#39Wow, I've never seen an article both prove and disprove itself so well simultaneously.
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#40Worth reading for this:
The Two Things about Biology: 1. Evolution is the process through which genetic structures that are better equipped to reproduce viable copies will tend to proliferate. 2. Except for the Platypus.