Unmasking Startup L. Jackson • Hacker News Board

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 5:13 PM UTC

cm3 wrote: post #23

Why? I mean why is it important to identify who's behind something that doesn't hurt anybody? Can't we just enjoy the art?

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Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by steveklabnik » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 5:14 PM UTC

Scuds wrote: post #21

khc wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been following @SarcasticRover for a while, do robots count?

In that case: @horse_js

horse_js isn't a bot, it's several people.

From what I hear.

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by leeoniya » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 5:20 PM UTC

circuit_breaker wrote: post #17

@PHP_CEO is one of the funniest Twitter accounts I've seen.. example: "IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT SOMEONE CALLED JASON HAS BEEN ENCODING AND DECODING DATA IN OUR APP. PLEASE CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS"

also check out @DEVOPS_BORAT, hilarious. but sadly no longer tweeting.

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by ljk » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 5:25 PM UTC

inopinatus wrote: post #34

circuit_breaker wrote: post #17

@PHP_CEO is one of the funniest Twitter accounts I've seen.. example: "IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT SOMEONE CALLED JASON HAS BEEN ENCODING AND DECODING DATA IN OUR APP. PLEASE CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS"

Do parody accounts now form the most diverting Twitter content? It ain't an endorsement of the medium. addendum: fair enough; make that "parody | satire".

Mostly. Some of my favorite accounts from before I quit:

https://twitter.com/onetweettony

https://twitter.com/stealthmountain

https://twitter.com/needadebitcard

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by tomjakubowski » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 5:39 PM UTC

vram22 wrote: post #4

I've found @DEVOPS_BORAT to be funny too. Kept seeing his tweets for over a year or two; humorous ones about devops, from an imaginary Armenian devops guy with broken English. Seems to have stopped tweeting a while ago.

Borat is supposed to be from Kazakhstan, not Armenia. Did @DEVOPS_BORAT break canon?

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by fowkswe » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 5:43 PM UTC

I was always a big fan of https://twitter.com/hipsterhacker

He's for the most part inactive, but occasionally drips out something acerbically relevant.

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by noir_lord » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 5:50 PM UTC

I quite like @shit_hn_says

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by noer » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 5:52 PM UTC

As far as parody/satire accounts go, I'm a huge fan of @BoredElonMusk. I hadn't even noticed that there haven't been tweets from Startup L. Jackson in months...

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by datawrangler » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 6:03 PM UTC

tomjakubowski wrote: post #45

vram22 wrote: post #4

I've found @DEVOPS_BORAT to be funny too. Kept seeing his tweets for over a year or two; humorous ones about devops, from an imaginary Armenian devops guy with broken English. Seems to have stopped tweeting a while ago.

Borat is supposed to be from Kazakhstan, not Armenia. Did @DEVOPS_BORAT break canon?

@DEVOPS_BORAT has Kazakhstan[1] listed as the location in their profile, so no. :)

[1] https://twitter.com/devops_borat

Re: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson

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Post by vram22 » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 6:21 PM UTC

tomjakubowski wrote: post #45

vram22 wrote: post #4

I've found @DEVOPS_BORAT to be funny too. Kept seeing his tweets for over a year or two; humorous ones about devops, from an imaginary Armenian devops guy with broken English. Seems to have stopped tweeting a while ago.

Borat is supposed to be from Kazakhstan, not Armenia. Did @DEVOPS_BORAT break canon?

Ah, thanks for the catch. I sometimes mix up or forget the exact names or locations of those Central Asian countries, also the ones in the Caucasus and the Balkans. Have to keep googling and looking at maps to get it right. Will get better over time, am still somewhat new to them ...