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Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by teddyh »

throwanem wrote: post #249
teddyh wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I certainly did not bring up Alan Watts again; you did. It also takes a lot of words to convey my thoughts accurately to someone who seems bent on misunderstanding them.

I restated them yesterday in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44757634 , assuming at the time that if you found any error there you would say so. Here's another chance to explain where I've actually failed to grasp your thesis, rather than that I'm pointing out you have overdressed a triviality with pretentious overcomplication. But it's less interesting to me that you brought up Alan Watts seven years ago than t…

> you have overdressed a triviality with pretentious overcomplication.

Well, possibly. What is interesting and subtle to some is obvious and clichéd to others. Much like how technology is mysterious and ineffable to some, but obvious and plain to others.

> But it's less interesting to me that you brought up Alan Watts seven years ago than that you did so again yesterday. What do you need from him? Why bring him up if you don't want to talk about him?

Now you’re being delusory. You brough up Alan Watts again, after I quoted him seven years ago. I simply responded to you.

> Or is it that no one is allowed to have an opinion that contradicts yours, including when that involves looking askance at needless reference to dead prophets?

I think that, outside purely literary criticism, criticizing a “needless” reference is useless unless the reference itself is incorrect in a way which invalidates the point which the reference is meant to illuminate.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by johnnymaroney »

pmarreck wrote: post #250
johnnymaroney wrote: post #246

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Thanks so much for signing up and sharing this with me. When you say "not sure if related" I would say most probably yes. Most emotional issues come from our childhood. It's interesting that your parents are German too. There have been a few other Germans that said the site didn't work for them and they have trouble crying. Seems like definitely a cultural thing there. Many of us as kids are told things like "don't c…

Hey, really appreciate it! I will keep an eye out for the invite. If you're feeling generous, my email that I signed up on the waitlist for is lumbergh@gmail.com Also, thanks for pushing in this direction.

I've added your email to the list of beta testers. Excited to share it with you soon!

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

#253

Post by throwanem »

teddyh wrote: post #251
throwanem wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I restated them yesterday in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44757634 , assuming at the time that if you found any error there you would say so. Here's another chance to explain where I've actually failed to grasp your thesis, rather than that I'm pointing out you have overdressed a triviality with pretentious overcomplication. But it's less interesting to me that you brought up Alan Watts seven years ago than t…

> you have overdressed a triviality with pretentious overcomplication. Well, possibly. What is interesting and subtle to some is obvious and clichéd to others. Much like how technology is mysterious and ineffable to some, but obvious and plain to others. > But it's less interesting to me that you brought up Alan Watts seven years ago than that you did so again yesterday. What do you need from him? Why bring him up if…

> You [brought] up Alan Watts again

I just checked again, and it does look like you posted [1] the relevant links. Are you seeing something different? My experience has been that people who use apps or scripts which purport to "improve" on HN's interface do sometimes run into such bugs.

I bring it up because I feel like if we're not working from similar sets of facts, that would be a reasonable explanation for what otherwise is seeming very much like you doing everything you possibly can to avoid acknowledging I called bullshit, on the naked appeal to authority to which you resorted, in order to try to lend your words a weight you lack the ability to give them yourself.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44753964

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by teddyh »

throwanem wrote: post #253
teddyh wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you have overdressed a triviality with pretentious overcomplication. Well, possibly. What is interesting and subtle to some is obvious and clichéd to others. Much like how technology is mysterious and ineffable to some, but obvious and plain to others. > But it's less interesting to me that you brought up Alan Watts seven years ago than that you did so again yesterday. What do you need from him? Why bring him up if…

> You [brought] up Alan Watts again I just checked again, and it does look like you posted [1] the relevant links. Are you seeing something different? My experience has been that people who use apps or scripts which purport to "improve" on HN's interface do sometimes run into such bugs. I bring it up because I feel like if we're not working from similar sets of facts, that would be a reasonable explanation for what o…

Three days ago, I did post the link to an seven-year-old post of mine, which in turn contained two links to other old posts of mine (ten and seven years old, respectively), where only the second of those linked posts contained a quote from Alan Watts. I do not count this as “bringing up” Alan Watts again three days ago.

Especially since I certainly did not use the quote of Alan Watts as a “naked appeal to authority”. Alan Watts does not describe anything in my point directly, and I do not, in the seven year old post, use the quote as an authoritative argument. It was merely an analogy. I claimed no knowledge of whether what Alan Watts describes is true or not. I used his description to explain what I thought was a similar phenomena to his description, nothing more.

> you doing everything you possibly can to avoid acknowledging I called bullshit, on the naked appeal to authority to which you resorted, in order to try to lend your words a weight you lack the ability to give them yourself.

I think you’re coming dangerously close, if not past, the forum guidelines, here. Please argue the point, not the person. I have asked you, repeatedly, why the Alan Watts quote is wrong, and why this fact would invalidate the point I was making. I even restated my point without referring to Alan Watts at all, to allow you to criticize it directly. But you have ignored all this, and your entire parent comment is instead about me, not about any point I was making, or even any point you are trying to make. Your entire argument seems to lack any point or counterpoint, and is instead only attacking me, personally.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by throwanem »

teddyh wrote: post #254
throwanem wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You [brought] up Alan Watts again I just checked again, and it does look like you posted [1] the relevant links. Are you seeing something different? My experience has been that people who use apps or scripts which purport to "improve" on HN's interface do sometimes run into such bugs. I bring it up because I feel like if we're not working from similar sets of facts, that would be a reasonable explanation for what o…

Three days ago, I did post the link to an seven-year-old post of mine, which in turn contained two links to other old posts of mine (ten and seven years old, respectively), where only the second of those linked posts contained a quote from Alan Watts. I do not count this as “bringing up” Alan Watts again three days ago. Especially since I certainly did not use the quote of Alan Watts as a “naked appeal to authority”.…

> I do not count this as “bringing up” Alan Watts again three days ago.

So I see.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by higgins »

johnnymaroney wrote: post #78
higgins wrote: post #8

When did you launch this? 300 tiktok followers in a day seems like great engagement

I actually launched it like a year ago. I'm working on a new project now called Feel ( https://www.feelapp.io ) which I've grown to over 40k followers on IG and tiktok

incredible! is this a single channel strategy? are you paying for a meme database? agentic posts?

feel's website looks great

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by throwanem »

BizarroLand wrote: post #228
pmarreck wrote: post #226

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Is that the name for it? That word means "to attach" or "to marry" to me, lol

hitch verb move (something) into a different position with a jerk. travel by hitch-hiking. informal obtain (a lift) by hitch-hiking. fasten or tether. harness (a draught animal or team). noun a temporary difficulty or problem. a knot of a particular kind, typically one used for fastening a rope to something else. a device for attaching one thing to another, especially the tow bar of a motor vehicle. an act of hitch-h…

That's not what that means! If you want to put a hitch in my gitalong, for example, you might try a really saucy compliment.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by BizarroLand »

throwanem wrote: post #257
BizarroLand wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hitch verb move (something) into a different position with a jerk. travel by hitch-hiking. informal obtain (a lift) by hitch-hiking. fasten or tether. harness (a draught animal or team). noun a temporary difficulty or problem. a knot of a particular kind, typically one used for fastening a rope to something else. a device for attaching one thing to another, especially the tow bar of a motor vehicle. an act of hitch-h…

That's not what that means! If you want to put a hitch in my gitalong, for example, you might try a really saucy compliment.

I won't argue that the usage can change, and I could see how it could also be used to imply that one's posterior moves in a pleasing manner, but in my experience it has only been used to indicate an issue:

Marjorie Kimmerle & Patricia Gibby, "A Word-List from Colorado," in Publication of the American Dialect Society (April 1949) has this entry for the term hitch:

    hitch: n. A crick ; a limp. Used only in the expression "He's got a hitch in his git-along." Said of horses and people. OED, A limp, a hobble, an interference in a horse's pace.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/283244/hitch-in-...

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by throwanem »

BizarroLand wrote: post #258
throwanem wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not what that means! If you want to put a hitch in my gitalong, for example, you might try a really saucy compliment.

I won't argue that the usage can change, and I could see how it could also be used to imply that one's posterior moves in a pleasing manner, but in my experience it has only been used to indicate an issue: Marjorie Kimmerle & Patricia Gibby, "A Word-List from Colorado," in Publication of the American Dialect Society (April 1949) has this entry for the term hitch: hitch: n. A crick ; a limp. Used only in the expressio…

Which experience would this be? That is a Stack Overflow link you posted. But I would expect such a footless prescriptivist to behave in just so ill informed a manner; excuse my short patience, I understand this actually is your best that you're showing.
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