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why is this relevant to hacker news?

• dang 11y ago
  Anything of intellectual interest is fair game, and historical material is particularly welcome. When considering what's relevant to HN, make sure you've read the first paragraph of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • Aloha 11y ago
    you could almost have this as a macro the question occurs often enough :-P
    • thecourier 11y ago
      Man, the guidelines say "Anything that good hackers would find interesting." Good hackers like Egyptology in general? WTF
• mwfunk 11y ago
  When presented with something unexpected, you will be much happier and much more successful if you focus on figuring out what's interesting about it, than if you focus on complaining about why it shouldn't be there. Alternately, just ignore it. Pretty much the only thing you shouldn't ever do is make a public statement about "why is X on Y?". That's really the only way you lose. Source: decades of reading digital forums. Also, life. The same lessons apply equally well to adult life in general. Seriously, no good will ever come of asking this question, anywhere, ever.
  • thecourier 11y ago
    Why is the North Korea opposition in the gulags? Why is there so much homeless people in SF streets? Why is this shitty piece of code here? According to mwfunk, we would be happier in figuring out what's interesting about that or ignore it. "When presented with something unexpected, you will be much happier and much more successful if you focus on figuring out what's interesting about it, than if you focus on complaining about why it shouldn't be there. Alternately, just ignore it."