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Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by dageshi »

Xcelerate wrote: post #8

I 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'm sorry, you seem to believe you can just throw around these opinions of yours without evidence. I demand you provide me with multiple peer reviewed scientific papers from journals of note to backup your so called claims.

Frankly there's no point in even continuing this conversation until you do and we should just assume that I'm right and you're wrong.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by jiggy2011 »

swanson wrote: post #22

Black 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/

I have a Macbook 15-inch 2.7GHz with Retina display, it baffles me that it is 2013 and there are still people who don't have one yet.

I mainly do my programming by SSHing to it and using Vim on my ipad.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by orangethirty »

simonsarris wrote: post #21

Good 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…

You are also forgetting your groupies. People will upvote your post because its you and not due to its content. tptacek has mentioned this in the past, and I personally suffer from it.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by jjcm »

pekk wrote: post #61
jjcm wrote: post #35

I think a parody of something is one of the best ways to draw insight, and in my opinion I'm kinda happy that this is what the parody of HN is: links to wikipedia/cited sources, debates about whether or not an article was correct, nitpicks and views from different positions/experiences, and the off hand XKCD comic. Probably much more civil than a parody of a slashdot/reddit/4chan post would be.

Let's not be too self-congratulatory. Hacker News today is in many ways like reddit of a few years ago, and Slashdot of many years ago. And this is a somewhat bowdlerized parody anyway.

I think all social news networks will degrade over time, but it's still good to have these health checks every once in a while to see what the state of it currently is. It lets us know when we need to move on.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by mhurron »

orangethirty wrote: post #76
simonsarris wrote: post #21

Good 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…

You are also forgetting your groupies . People will upvote your post because its you and not due to its content. tptacek has mentioned this in the past, and I personally suffer from it.

> also forgetting your groupies. ... tptacek has mentioned

I never would have guessed.

I wonder if this thread could be turned into a parody of the parody?

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