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Innovator - To help communicate with other HN readers, I created an analogy about mountain bikes and their tire size!

HN - Not a good analogy to compare tire sizes for mountain biking to information security in Javascript. You should be comparing bicycle locks.

Innovator - My analogy still makes sense though? Consider my physical safety to be roughly equivalent to information security. While bike locks could certainly work for the analogy as well they just weren't the choice we decided to go with.

HN - Your analogy falls apart with edge cases X, Y and Z', bike locks have been used for analogies since.....



Reminds me of a recent discussion I had on HN! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19873055

This particular response really made me chuckle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19873801

My analogy related to SQL, but we ended up talking about the complexities of physics...


What color is the bike? I suggest camo for added security.


Forget the bike, what color of shed are you going to keep it in?




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