Merry Christmas HN • Hacker News Board

Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by whimsy » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 10:58 AM UTC

Merry Solstice and Happy New Year's.

Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by whimsy » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 11:00 AM UTC

j2d2j2d2 wrote: post #45

Happy Atheistmas! (not trying to troll) Edit: What would you prefer? I'm trying to acknowledge my beliefs during this holiday season and cheer the holidays on, but I am an atheist. Perhaps silence would be better?

What about the Winter solstice and the turn of the new year? They're pretty cool events, and secular to boot. Natural phenomena are cool! (... Though I guess New Year's is artificial.)

Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by maguay » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 1:31 PM UTC

iamdave wrote: post #20

Thanks maguay! Best to you and yours in 2011

Thanks, and same to you :)

Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by Revisor » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 1:32 PM UTC

I found HN this year and it changed my life. I try to spread the message further with my own means.

Thanks to all of you!

Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 2:38 PM UTC

tylerdiaz wrote: post #31

Merry Christmas & Happy new years to everyone. Cheers to another year of hacking! :D

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Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by rick_2047 » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 3:39 PM UTC

nitrogen wrote: post #63

rick_2047 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I said, all hail HN's hypocrisy. When we have a slight sarcasm or a small joke we all downvote it. Then why do you think this belongs here, this is the type of thing we try to avoid in those sarcasm or jokes. You see, the joke and sarcasms should be OK if we are a community shouldn't they be? But we are a community which tries to generate high quality content related to hacking and startups. I don't think this is…

Perhaps the upvote heuristic used by the HN hive mind is a bit more complex than you initially believed?

Naah, its just a hypocrite and does what it feels like doing.

Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by pwhelan » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 5:36 PM UTC

flexd wrote: post #73

Merry Christmas! Tomorrow i'll be back saying sqrt(-1)/8 ! :-)

There is a central limit theorem joke in here somewhere, I just know it.

Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by CallMeV » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 10:13 PM UTC

stuartm wrote: post #100

j2d2j2d2 wrote: post #45

Happy Atheistmas! (not trying to troll) Edit: What would you prefer? I'm trying to acknowledge my beliefs during this holiday season and cheer the holidays on, but I am an atheist. Perhaps silence would be better?

Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25, so some atheists will be celebrating Newtonmas as a secular alternative to Christmas. Happy Newtonmas!

Just don't let your inertial mass get so great that the force of gravity from the Earth overwhelms the force exerted by your body's muscles.

Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by CallMeV » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 10:18 PM UTC

May you all find the company you desire most, good food and liquid libation when you need it, indulgence without consequence, and the time to do everything you truly desire - whether snuggling with a loved one or trying to pin down that aggressively elusive bug in your code that keeps stopping up your compiler.

Actually, I ought to just start with "May you finally manage to pin down that bug in your code." Nothing comes close to the elation of victory.

Peace.

Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by J3L2404 » Fri, Dec 24, 2010, 11:55 PM UTC

I believe "Seasons Greetings" is the optimally nondescript, and therefore PC, phrase, only acknowledging that we are, currently, in a season and that we greet it.