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This is excellent. Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something? - New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency - Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time - Nikola Tesla on Direct Current - Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down? Any other ideas?
This is excellent. Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something? - New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency - Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time - Nikola Tesla on Direct Current - Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down? Any other ideas?
- Alternating Current considered harmful
Along similar lines: If PHP Were British: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ Reddit Proper: https://www.reddit.com/r/proper/
This is excellent. Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something? - New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency - Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time - Nikola Tesla on Direct Current - Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down? Any other ideas?
"The time is not ripe for idle banter on the vagaries of the world." has a real "Free Beer Tomorrow" energy to it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
A relevant quote from the linked article: > I implore you, dear reader, to set aside your petty grievances; trifling things such as the format of an article or website, the unfortunate repetition of a name, or the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button. They are so common and so lacking in originality that they have no interest whatsoever. But for real, the styling is just copied from the original:…
That's so good I'm tempted to replace the existing rule with it.
> back-button breakage
into
> the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button
It's a remarkably good translation.
Then again "the unfortunate repetition of a name" does not have quite the same meaning as "name collisions".
This is excellent. Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something? - New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency - Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time - Nikola Tesla on Direct Current - Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down? Any other ideas?
Show VHN: Light bulb re-implemented using Carbon