The parody is funny. The comments here are hilarious . I fear I will never again be able to tell if an HN commenter is just jerking my chain, no matter how sincere they seem.
I agree. I love the response that I got. :-)
Hacker News Parody Thread
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#52I disagree with the author. I know he's incredibly successful and right about pretty much everything he's ever said, but I've had some experience in this area and just finished reading through some of the archives and I think his focus is wrong. I'm going to ignore the technical issue and talk about the bigger picture and higher level things than what was said in the blog post. If the OP thinks that the process is most important, it's really about end results. But if he thinks it should be about the end results then he's an idiot for not thinking about the process. I'll weasel in a reference the startup I co-founded even though it's not directly relevant.
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#53Good god this was funny, right down to the usernames. But now its time to be very HN about it. > Rats, top comments will be impossible to beat. Actually I think I have a solution to this, though its just guesswork. I'm not particularly well known here (or anywhere), but either people actually like the words I say, or I simply have yet to make a complete ass out of myself. (I think one of these is more plausible, but…
> Alas I don't know for certain, but my guess is that if you have a high average karma then your posts are automatically weighted higher, so you can inject your opinion into almost any topic at any time. This affords me the luxury of being a contradictory whine even if I come late to the party! One thing I dislike about the 'average karma' is that it discourages engaging in an extended discussion. For example, if you…
Absolutely, if you care about those numbers. I think my average karma is pretty low, but that's not why I'm here.
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#54I've finally seen how downvotability looks like in HN UI :-)
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#55The usernames made me chuckle, my favorite is "DefaultSearchIsWikipedia". Also, you forgot at least one archetype: the enthusiastic rant from an oblivious hell-banned poster.
Also, you forgot at least one archetype: the enthusiastic rant from an oblivious hell-banned poster.
There should also be a subthread complaining to the moderators about the title change.
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#56A good laugh -- it's all in the details; and surprisingly plausible
Ugh, disgusting; take your laugh privilege back to Reddit.
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#57The parody is funny. The comments here are hilarious . I fear I will never again be able to tell if an HN commenter is just jerking my chain, no matter how sincere they seem.
Define funny
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#58I disagree with the author. This isn't exactly a parody thread. A parody is "an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work" [1]. For one thing, I would hardly call Hacker News comments "original work", and a simple creation like this hardly captures the full scope and breadth of comments on here. Furthermore, I'm not really sure why this belongs on HN, because it's not very technical, a…
I know this is off-topic, but could you teach Redditors how to make funny threads? It's very funny.
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#59Black text on a grey background? How can anyone expect to read this? We don't all have retina displays and use OSX. http://contrastrebellion.com/
The blog's text looks fine for me on a 95DPI monitor using Firefox on Windows 7. It looks quite bad on a recent Chromium build but that's to be expected for Webfonts rendered in Chrom* running on Windows.
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#60I disagree with the author. This isn't exactly a parody thread. A parody is "an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work" [1]. For one thing, I would hardly call Hacker News comments "original work", and a simple creation like this hardly captures the full scope and breadth of comments on here. Furthermore, I'm not really sure why this belongs on HN, because it's not very technical, a…
This article made me switch to Gentoo Linux. I'm only replying to you comment because it's the top voted one.
Correction: "you" should be "your"