I don't get it

_cereal · on March 10, 2017

I suppose it's a quote from La Haine (1995) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/

> Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land!

_raul · on March 10, 2017

I remember hearing it from Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven when I was a kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7GP3l5znc8

hyperbovine · on March 10, 2017

"Jusqu'ici tout va bien"

It sounds so nice in French.

Amazing film, by the way.

mrkgnao · on March 10, 2017

The measure of success as a function of how far you've fallen is basically constant throughout and then suddenly changes to 0 (or -inf, or whatever).

metalon · on March 10, 2017

Maybe the Heaviside step function would be fitting :-)

mrkgnao · on March 10, 2017

It's more like the delta function/"function" restricted to the nonnegative reals.