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you guys need to take things a little bit less seriously.. leojg was using the "Trust Me, I'm an Engineer" meme http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trust-me-im-an-eng
by presty 11y ago
you guys need to take things a little bit less seriously.. leojg was using the "Trust Me, I'm an Engineer" meme http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trust-me-im-an-engineer http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trust-me-im-an-engineer
- leojg 11y agoyeah... but it seems that HN users lack of sense of humor :(
- krapp 11y agoHumor is not intellectually stimulating, and has been optimized away in favor of elitist posturing. Memes are for the normals on Reddit. Hacker News is serious business.
- mikeash 11y agoNah, HN is totally fine with humor. But it has to actually be funny. Unfortunately, for unfunny people, it's easy to confuse this with "no humor allowed."
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoNot quite. I think that HN is such a diverse group, its hard to tell sarcasm from a straight answer. Especially in a text forum. So its darned confusing.
- mikeash 11y agoI'd say both. There's lots of sarcasm that gets missed, and also lots of unfunny attempts at humor that are obvious in their nature.
- leojg 11y agoSure, because this article is the most serious in the world... and all the HN post are extreamly serious... come on dude, re read yourself, you are talking about "normals" what are you, some kind of godlike being?