[packetlost]

I don't know about startups, but I know of several more mature companies that are using it. It's, IMO, the best way to use the Java ecosystem.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

Even if you never push the code to production, it’s a crazy gorse multiplier for the explore and adventure prototype phase of a project

[finnh]

"gorse multiplier" wins today's "best transcription error" award, IMO

category: edit-distance-two

[jacobobryant]

2nd place probably goes to another comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41560711

[pavlov]

I was momentarily convinced that “crazy horse multiplier” must be an American idiom, and then realized that maybe the misspelled thing being multiplied is a force rather than a horse after all.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

I usually catch these too and ninja edit them out