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Beauty of Internet

 Just yesterday, I was bored and was just going through some tweets on my twitter timeline and I came across a tweet by Hacker Zed Shaw and I visited his website hoping to stumble upon something interesting, I was just going through archives and found this gem, The Master, The Expert, The Programmer and submitted to Hacker News hoping to read some existing comments  on the essay.  To my disappointment, it wasn't submitted to Hacker News [1] and there weren't any comments to learn from. The comments on Hacker News are sometimes more interesting than the post they are commenting on, so I was hoping to understand the depth of Zed's post.  Once submitted comments start pouring in and some of them were just  mind-blowing and complemented Zed's post beautifully.  I guess one of the users of Hacker News submitted the post to proggit too (unless he was stumbling upon the Zed's site at the same time too) but the comments weren't as insightful as Hacker News comments. This post is actually about nothing but my realization of beauty of Internet, which is contributing and learning from others as they contribute. Zed also talks about this on his new blogpost . So all in all, my boredom led me to find invaluable information from Zed's post, comments from Hacker News and all in all it made me slightly smarter than I was, day before yesterday. Thanks Internet, Thanks Zed, Thanks Hacker News.

[1] The blogpost was actually submitted 3 years back to Hacker News but it didn't get as many comments as it deserved.

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My DNS is better than yours :)
Google claims that this service is better because it has no ads or redirection. But you have to remember they are also the largest advertising and redirection company on the Internet. To think that Google’s DNS service is for the benefit of the Internet would be naive.
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