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Isn't it Samuel L. Jackson?
You're a champion! Canadian of the year! Hold your head up high.
Yeah, I saw the opportunity to add .001% to my karma and just couldn't resist.
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#132Is this really necessary? I mean... It's kind of childish. Using profanity to fake coolness and rage driven by allegedly unique insights and experiences... Meh.
Zed is the ultimate troll whether it's intentional or not. He must spend a lot of time laughing at all the time & attention he gets for doing and saying silly things, things that people end up taking far too seriously.
The fact that I'm here commenting on this story saddens me.
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#133Repeated application turns otherwise gratuitous profanity into .. FUCKING SUBSTANCE.
did you mean design patterns?
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#135Is this really necessary? I mean... It's kind of childish. Using profanity to fake coolness and rage driven by allegedly unique insights and experiences... Meh.
Zed is the ultimate troll whether it's intentional or not. He must spend a lot of time laughing at all the time & attention he gets for doing and saying silly things, things that people end up taking far too seriously. The fact that I'm here commenting on this story saddens me.
I'm just trying to brighten the day of my fellow work-slaves.
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#136Samuel L. Jackson is a programmer. Haven't you seen Jurassic Park, motherfucker?
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#137Is this really #1? Like, is it really the most important thing I can read today? Having read it: no, no it's not. I agree with the ideology: it would be better if programmers instead of managers made decisions, but I don't think this piece expresses that very well. It also seems that the only reason this submission is at the top is that it uses "shocking" profanity associated with incest. I'm unimpressed.
Incest? Man you got issues. There's a lot more mothers than your own.
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#138Funniest part? I KNEW it had to have picture of Samuel L. Jackson on the page. Bingo! Damn I love satire. I've always said we can say more through satire in ten words than we can with reasoned argument in a thousand. As long as it's not overdone. To Thomas' point, yes, the author of this piece socially-engineered the hell out of it. But that's okay. I can deal with one of these made-for-hn pieces every week or so. No…
It didn't originally have the Picture of Samuel L Jackson on the page.
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#139The fact that I agree with all of this just makes me sadder at how it was presented. Thanks for building a handy straw man for the methodology developers to attack. I flagged this --- it's virtually content free --- but that's a futile gesture given how susceptible HN is to this particular form of social engineering.
...it's virtually content free... Not if you run it through ReadBetweenTheLines(). Hey Thomas, lighten up. Normally I'd agree with you, but not today. This post hit me just right... I'm having a shitty day. Really shitty. 6 levels deep into garbage that never should have been written, trying to add one little feature. Asking myself every 7 minutes if I have time to rewrite without shifting everything else out a week.…
No retreat! No surrender! I'm here watching the battlements keeping the undesirable content out when you can't be. It's what's called "watching your back". I know you'd do the same for me! :|
I really do believe this stuff is a slippery slope. It makes the site worse. Just like yesterday's "Apple Says Yes" comment thread. But I made my snarky comment about it, hit my flag button, and now I'm done. I'm not out for a holy war.
On another note: sorry about your day.
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#140No, it's Programming, Motherfucker. There is no * in it.
I started LPTHW last night and I'm 14 exercises in. And I can't believe the same guy who wrote the most gentle programming book I've laid my hands on...is all about "Programming, Motherfuckers! We fucking do programming, motherfuckers!"
You have achieved a zen I only dared dream of as a child.