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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6677539
and how the policy about titles of submissions is being implemented by the moderation team. The article kindly submitted here is a very interesting article.
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Which leads to another problem, that "hipster" has more or less lost all meaning. So perhaps another parallel should be drawn.
Now I'm curious as to the origin of "hipster"...
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Which leads to another problem, that "hipster" has more or less lost all meaning. So perhaps another parallel should be drawn.
Now I'm curious as to the origin of "hipster"...
This might interest you as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie_%28etymology%29
In summary: dude originally meant "hipster."
Apparently. Which tells you that nothing new actually is. It also makes you wonder what a Roman hipster would have been like in Caesar's time.
I'm curious about how the Hacker News duplicate detector is working today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6677539 and how the policy about titles of submissions is being implemented by the moderation team. The article kindly submitted here is a very interesting article.
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Apparently. Which tells you that nothing new actually is. It also makes you wonder what a Roman hipster would have been like in Caesar's time.
Caesar was considered a 'hipster' in his time (prior to his conquest). He supported plebian donatives and programs, which created a populist support base but engendered distrust and hatred from the Optimates (conservatives). He was also said to have a different style of dress than was the norm.
Seriously, a science teacher in high school read that definition from a dictionary, and handed out photocopies of it to my class, in the hopes that it would discourage us from using the word, because he got sick of hearing it. It had the opposite effect, obviously.
...but anyway, that's why I laughed when The Stranger in The Big Lebowski implied, with subtlety, the same meaning when he said it was a name "no one would self-apply" where he came from.
I'm sticking with "hairy horse anus."
Dude Where's My Horseless Carriage
Immense!