> Today I must accuse a further 3 commenters of "ad hominem" to fill my quota.
What 4chan thinks of HN
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#52That is what you call :pawned:
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#53How 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…
Parodies are usually funny because they're true. The citations in HN comments are some of the most valuable contributions to the site.
This whole post is depressing. Far from lighthearted fun, these comments all have an undercurrent of hostility ("wannabe-academic"). The mosaic formed by these comments imply pg has harmed the world by creating HN. But that couldn't be further from the truth.
Imagine where you'd be forced to go if HN didn't exist, for example.
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#54 203 votes - How I learned my 6 year old daughter how to
do high algorithm trading in Haskell
1 hour later, 421 votes, Your children should be outside
playing, not coding
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#55[231 points] Show /hn/: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it. "[some program/service] in Javascript" - 6075 comments Why [obscure framework] is the next [industry standard framework]. Hacker, entrepreneur, genius, lifestyle blogger, CEO of Whoof! Pastebin for dog owners and pixel.io image-resizing service made entirely in Go. Startup culture in a nutshell.
Haha, at risk of completely fitting the stereotype 4chan is setting out for us: *Silicon Valley startup culture. It is very different in other places, really!
*HN culture
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#564chan'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.…
>Shame about the captcha.
you were never on 4chan before captchas, were you?
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#57How 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…
Wikipedia links as references in comments are helpful
Initially, I thought you were referring to the
"Submission is a link to a wikipedia article"
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#58Relevant XKCD: http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
That's not just an HN issue. It's a problem in any community where there is a significant ratio of self-professed geeks or the like.
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#59The 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
There are actually rampaging Stallman bots that will post those. It's pretty great, actually.
New startup idea: Stallman-as-a-service.
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#60How 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…
Parodies are usually funny because they're true. The citations in HN comments are some of the most valuable contributions to the site. This whole post is depressing. Far from lighthearted fun, these comments all have an undercurrent of hostility ("wannabe-academic"). The mosaic formed by these comments imply pg has harmed the world by creating HN. But that couldn't be further from the truth. Imagine where you'd be fo…
I had in mind the kind of format that in effect says "really, I think you are too dumb to use Google" rather than someone pointing out an actual useful resource or a place for further reading.
If the reference took some non-trivial research to find, it is of course welcome and useful. The too-obvious Wikipedia link is an attempt to imitate references of the useful variety with the intent of appearing sophisticated.