After reading your comment, I was expecting some kind of RLE over a bit set. But no, not even that?
So I guess, it is notable because it shows how far coding has been industrialized; ie has been dumbed down so much that a mere bit field can be presented as some esoteric trick.
Reminds me of the kerfuffle about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%27s_model, where someone managed to get published what is basically the Trapezoidal Rule for numerical integration, and of course had to name it after themselves.
> Tai disagreed that Tai's model is simply the trapezoidal rule, on the basis that her model uses the summed areas of rectangles and triangles rather than trapezoids.
The world is big and rediscoveries are not always going to be so graceful. If stuff is harder / more annoying to find than to figure it out yourself, you're downright reasonable for intentionally attempting so even.
If I remember correctly, in the "Tia's rule" case specifically, her coworkers even defended her for the whole thing - implying of course that she was being ridiculed for this, making neither side of this story look very pretty if you ask me.
Also why people don't "RTFM". Yes, I can read through the pages of prose you wrote how you implemented e.g. bog standard role based auth. Or I can just brute force try using all the related looking commands and see what happens...
But it really isn't. How many e.g. business ideas do you think are thought up every day, only for people to find that they already exist and have well established players? Most times people just catch themselves on time, or go through this with a smaller audience first that they know in person. Has this really never happened to you or anyone you know? Is this concept really that alien to you?
There's a difference between saying I'm going to do something that has already been done but I'm going to roll my own compared to look at this cool thing I've done that nobody else has done. There are plenty of bits of code that I've written that easily could have been handled by something along the lines of a 'npm install' but then I wouldn't have learned anything, but I never released a Show HN or written a blog to toot my own horn for reinventing the wheel and acting like it was the first time a wheel had been used.
But as far as being alien to me, any time someone pats themself on the back with public posts about anything is alien to me. I'm fully aware that if I could think of it, someone else out there has already done it. The number of times I've done an search for something I'm working on that hasn't had a post of someone else doing it approaches zero.
omg, its so obvious! making computers smart is hard, but making people think less requires no effort at all. I can't believe I missed the plan so thoroughly.
