On: Sqids – Generate short unique IDs from numbers

[selcuka]

> that'll be like trying to determine the average salary in a company with only two known ones, which could be the janitor's and the CEO's

Ironically that would be somewhat close to the actual average.

[mcherm → selcuka]

It would be significantly above the average unless the company is ridiculously top-heavy or has shockingly little variation in salary. Or if the "salary" for the CEO ignores certain compensation (eg: paid a salary of $1 + stock options).

[selcuka → mcherm]

Sure thing. I could have worded it better, but I was trying to say that it would be much more skewed if the two samples were, say, CEO and the CFO, or two janitors.