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Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by icpmacdo » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:01 AM UTC

This one is my favourite

-"Things I've learned from coding for a month"

-"Ten ways to become a better programmer" - by the guy who's been coding for a month

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by eruditely » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:03 AM UTC

I used to participate actively on /g/ in 2007 to 2011 roughly, I go back for a few months at a time. Funny I used to be on so much I could tell who was posting by seeing the frequency of their favorite images to post and what fonts they were using. Their ircs are good too. It's nice to see some of the communities I frequent meet each other.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by _l4lu » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:06 AM UTC

How could they have left out the patronizing irrelevant [0] links [1] to Wikipedia [2] in all the wannabe-academic [3] comments with references[4]?

(and yes, references must be 0-based [5])

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_numbering

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by ekianjo » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:07 AM UTC

Haha, I love this one :

I went to the Apple Store and this guy was really nice to me

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by mehmehshoe » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:08 AM UTC

drewblaisdell wrote: post #12

The Stallman interruptions to promote the term GNU/Linux are perfect.

Oh I was in tears by the third Stallman posting. It looks like he was posting the same things in other threads as well. Stallman spamming

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by GhotiFish » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:10 AM UTC

4chan's commenting system is simultaneously more annoying, and more enjoyable to use. The backtrack style lets you follow conversations, but it doesn't become a nested nightmare. Backtracks also highlight comments of importance or significance.

the Reddit/HN system is hunting the most valuable comments through democracy, but it throws that work out because of its visible tree structure. People can ride the top post.

Also the auto updates are nice to stay current on an active conversation.

Gotta give it to 4chan, nice system. Shame about the captcha.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by kyzyl » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:11 AM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #21

011011100 wrote: post #8

There are a lot people on this forum who seem to think they're absolutely right about some convention or way of life and that they're entitled to attention (ie they believe their take is actually insightful). This describes the "I did or think X, and you should also think or do X" threads.

I think the business of being an entrepreneur selects for such traits. The whole notion of "disruption" that is central to so many of the ideas floating on HN, is rooted in the arrogance necessary to make them work.

It's a shame that such an intelligent group tends towards such arrogance, even in situations where it doesn't help. I think you have a point about the demographic around here being one of the causes of such posts/comments/whatever. However, while the personality traits at fault might have some place in the world of startups--i.e. getting a startup off the ground, against all odds-- it's really too bad that many of us seem to lack to ability to self moderate, even just enough to realize that an arrogant disposition does nothing to further our post about what port we think SSH should run on.