Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

What 4chan thinks of HN

rbt.asia

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

191–200 of 265 posts

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

#191

Post by pygy_ »

_l4lu wrote: post #43

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…

Formally, ordinals start at zero [0]. We owe their latest definition to Von Neumann, but former (technical) definitions were similar.

--

[0] This is meta-meta-contrarianism.

- The layman counts from one

- The uptight programmer counts from zero, because he thinks Dijkstra said so [1].

- The meta-contrarian (which I used to be) says fuck it, ordinals start at one [0].

- The meta-meta-contrarian reads Von Neumann[1], realizes he was formally wrong, and goes one step further in pedanticity, back to zero [0].

[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number_%28linguistics%2...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number#Von_Neumann_defi...

[0] Help! I'm trapped in a Boolean algebra[1][0]!

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

[0] ... where xor is an addition that wraps around ...

That being said, my brain prefers 1-indexing programming languages like Lua, Julia, R and Matlab...

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

#193

Post by kops »

neya wrote: post #61

Sadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest c…

I found this really funny

>>>Some blog post about scalability... blog crashes after posting link to HN and /r/programming

But who says I can't talk about a rocket while riding a bike:-)

Also I will add these to the list

> why [angular/backbone/ember] [rocks|sucks]

> XYZ in pure CSS.

> How I got [in/out] of YC

I have to admit I enjoy many of these. Just taking cheap shots here:-) But I would really like a few more posts about

1. The thought process a new founder goes through before approaching a VC.

2. How to save your ass while talking to VC's who know the game far better than you do.

3. The mistakes founders have made in past w.r.t to starting, abandoning, funding their startups.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

#194

Post by d3gamer »

sixothree wrote: post #155
neya wrote: post #61

Sadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest c…

As someone who lives outside of sv, it seems like they're not describing a site but a place. So while visits to HN can do worlds of good to my intellectual curiosity, this post is a nice reminder that I don't actually have to endure this disgusting mindset on a daily basis. Thankfully. tldr; you people are awesomely sickening. Oh yeah, and they forgot to add "How I quit my job and traveled the third world on just a '…

cheeky bastards got some variants of it, though:

"How I quit my job and went into consulting" "How I quit consulting and went into freelancing" "How I quit consulting and went into your mom's vagina" "How I quit my consulting job for a month and learned to program and am now making 80k a year writing Ruby apps" "How I quit my contractor Ruby dev gig and joined the Node.js behemoth (and why you should too)"

brilliant

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

#196

Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

sbierwagen wrote: post #144
duairc wrote: post #63

I'm actually really surprised they seem to think that the HN community is anti-sexist. Compared to 4chan, maybe, but from my experience it isn't at all.

4chan considers reddit to be a hotbed of radical feminist activism, solely due to /r/SRS. Of course, they'd probably say the same of any community where you use something close to real names, like HN.

/r/SRS is hardly a hotbed of radfem activism either. It's a circlejerk where people post posts from other parts of reddit and laugh depressingly at how awful they are

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

#197

Post by Havoc »

neya wrote: post #61

Sadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest c…

They forgot the billion *.js posts - with seemingly arbitrary nouns selected as names.

Or the ridiculous intentional mispellings in names...somehow skipping all the vowels & resemble some vaguely phonetic spelling. Twitter > twtr etc.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

#198

Post by redthrowaway »

Nav_Panel wrote: post #82
minimaxir wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There have been a few incidents where discussions about gender issues have been very quickly flagged off the front page. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495950

I don't understand why the post you linked would have been flagged. I see nothing at all wrong with it.

It would have tripped the flamewar detector. If a submission engenders (get it?) a flame war in the comments, it gets buried automatically.
Post reply on HN