I always figured it was a joke anyway. I mean, how can you have "clockwise" in a single dimension?

I’ve always assumed that it’s a joke as well, but that doesn’t seem to stop the gullible from believing it.

Yeah, Poe's Law in action I guess.

Is there a reason you linked to ycombinator.org instead of ycombinator.com?

google’d to find my old posting, and didn’t notice the domain. Too late to edit now.

Ah.. thanks for sending that thread.