I wish Buzzfeed only had articles like this.
Good thing we have HN to filter the trash out for us.
I Had a Stroke at 33
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Re: I Had a Stroke at 33
#12Remember FAST: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAST_(stroke)
First 3 minutes of the house episode Fetal Position (S3 E17) demonstrate it.
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#13Not sure what this has got to do with programming?
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#14Remember this - You have FOUR HOURS to get a person with a stroke to the emergency. If you do, their chances of survival are dramatically higher.
My dad had a cerebral stroke a few years ago. As everyone else was trying to arrange an emergency ambulance, his doctor was on the phone with him asking him to stay awake. Apparently, he said "if you fall asleep, you'll die." Fighting to stay awake for those few hours was one of the hardest things he's ever had to do.
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#15Well, I just popped an Aspirin for no reason.
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#16I wish Buzzfeed only had articles like this.
Why, people enjoy the other types of articles - why should they not cater to them as well?
Because we associate BuzzFeed with bullshit clickbait spam. It makes it difficult for an article to reach the right audience when you have such a large amount of negative association with a particular brand. It'd be like if the supermarket tabloids starting include well-written and legitimate content. It's going to take a substantial amount of work to win over the millions of people who view them exclusively as a tabloid, which is exactly how we view BuzzFeed today.
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#17Not sure what this has got to do with programming?
Intellectually interesting stories on all topics have been welcome here ever since PG changed the site name from "Startup News" in 2007:
https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
By the way, if anybody wants a hit of meta, it's astonishing how precisely the last five paragraphs there still apply.
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#18Not sure what this has got to do with programming?
From the guidelines:
What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Re: I Had a Stroke at 33
#19Remember FAST: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAST_(stroke) First 3 minutes of the house episode Fetal Position (S3 E17) demonstrate it.
The author points out that she didn't display any of those symptoms.
Re: I Had a Stroke at 33
#20Remember this - You have FOUR HOURS to get a person with a stroke to the emergency. If you do, their chances of survival are dramatically higher.
My dad had a cerebral stroke a few years ago. As everyone else was trying to arrange an emergency ambulance, his doctor was on the phone with him asking him to stay awake. Apparently, he said "if you fall asleep, you'll die." Fighting to stay awake for those few hours was one of the hardest things he's ever had to do.
This advice to not fall asleep is pretty prevalent (at least on TV). Is there a basis for it?