Graf in a sentence as a noun

But the piece is enormous; more than 60 grafs long.

I nominate that last graf for "smartest thing anyone's going to say on HN this week".

Spolsky could have added, "does your team ban sprintf, strcpy, and strcat" and then written a graf on buffer overflows.

If it were anyone but the OP, who always writes with a lot of thoughtfulness and insight, I would've assumed the graf above is satire.

Next graf:It was followed by Yahoo in 2008; Google, Facebook and PalTalk in 2009; YouTube in 2010; Skype and AOL in 2011; and finally Apple, which joined the program in 2012.

So I liked this, like everything else Diego writes, but this graf doesn't ring true to me:Joe and Wayne work on building something they know GooBook could acquire without looking stupid.

The graf about the government is a political statement, not a policy fact, and does not belong in a news story.-----Medicare/caid prices are standardized and public.

So, by quoting a 2-year old book on Facebook and displaying one stock graph, the author of this post arrives at the following concluding graf:Sandberg should start an ad agency on the East Coast.

Very important graf at the end:The only thing I can think of here is that for all that we think of startups as being largely high-tech things, in reality a huge number of them are in the construction industry, in one way or another.

Here's the graf in the VF piece that has Langner so upset:If I did not have the background that I had, I dont think I would have had the guts to say what I said about Stuxnet, Langner says now, finishing his second glass of wine during lunch at a Viennese restaurant in Hamburg.

"[2]Doing my best tptacek impression "the nut graf is":"We believe that this algo will continue to grow and if left unchecked, could very well contribute to the next flash crash because it removes precious network capacity and provides zero economic value such as price discovery.

Graf definitions

noun

German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969)

See also: Graf