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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.
> I mainly do my programming by SSHing to it and using Vim on my ipad. I've both actually done this, and told people about it on HN. I'm ashamed.
Is it possible to downvote people? Why can't I do that?
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 honestly really curious about this. Could you elaborate?
Себя как в зеркале я вижу,
Но это зеркало мне льстит.
Translation:
I see myself as in a mirror
But this mirror flatters me.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…
As a tool or "quality score" that aims to control and keep a forum from derailing this kind of a scoring system has probably done OK. Not sure if it is solely responsible for these effects on sites like HN and SO, but there's not denying that the signal to noise ratio is far better than for example USENET S/N or some forums out there (vBulletin or phpBB type).
Having operated a forum before I can tell you that it can be an absolute nightmare (I was using vBulletin) on many fronts. HN seems to be able to maintain decent quality.
Just in case it wasn't noticed by many, note that all the links on the page are mini-jokes as well. Replies, navigation, everything.
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…
Well, pg isn't on that leaderboard. Not sure what karma means or what it's worth other to the user than giving one the ability to down-vote (which should require posting a reason for having done so, but that's a different thread). As a tool or "quality score" that aims to control and keep a forum from derailing this kind of a scoring system has probably done OK. Not sure if it is solely responsible for these effects…
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…