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		Amorymeltzer on Nov 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Buddhist Priest Who Became a Billionaire Snubb... Without commenting on the content of this comment, the framing of that last sentence reminded me of hacker koans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan See also git koans: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/ Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5511863

wavefunction on Nov 6, 2015 [–]

Yeah, but you may feel that framing because hacker koans are derived from actual buddhist zen koans, which take the format you find so familiar and reference as the hacker koan format.

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