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…
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It doesn't look like anyone in this thread is denying anything. Most of the comments here are about how amazingly accurate every single one of these is.
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#63It's amazing how accurate it is.
It's almost like some people use both sites...
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#64> How I built an automatic Raspberry Pi garage door on top of JavaScript
I thought this was hilarious. Until I realized it's a real thing. http://itsbrent.net/2013/03/hacking-my-garage-with-a-raspber...
I'm done with the internet.
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#65So accurate. Such parody. Wow.
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#66This is hilarious and spot on. Still love HN though.
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#68On Javascript: No, it's awful. But it's the only client side scripting language out there, and Web guys love to pretend they're just as skilled as systems guys. They take concepts that systems programmers discovered 30 years ago, put a fancy name on it and do it worse. Funny, but that's exactly what people were saying about Java programmers in the 90's. Now, the Java ecosystem is full of useful libraries and well opt…
Doesn't make Java any less of a bad language.
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#70Introducing js.js: a JIT compiler from JavaScript to JavaScript Trying so hard not to lol at work...
This one is actually legitimate. Saw it on HN a while ago, really funny: