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Poe's law has struck me down here. Either author is an asshole, or author doesn't know how to do good parody.
by cmrx64 11y ago
Poe's law has struck me down here. Either author is an asshole, or author doesn't know how to do good parody.
- dllthomas 11y agoUp until 3, I was leaning "not parody", but 3 has to be parody. "Then there’s trains. Urgh. So you’re having trouble downloading a client-rendered, blocking-javascript-dependent web page over 2G because you’re on a train? The solution’s staring you in the face: Stop travelling by train. Either get a pad in the city center near your place of work or sleep under your desk. That’s what I did, why can’t you? Honestly, take some responsibility."
- mrgoldenbrown 11y agoThe "take some responsibility" line is actually very close to what I hear real people say all the time in discussions on poverty. Many people seem to firmly believe the idea that poor people are only poor because they're lazy. It is not hard for me to believe there are developers out there who would actually say something like this.
- giaour 11y agoIt's no more outlandish than any of the comments that end up on @ShitHNSays
- dllthomas 11y agoI don't disagree that there are echoes of things that are actually said - that's to be expected of parody. But it's the combination that's so over the top. "If you (and your partner?) are not living in the (same) city center where you (both) work, you are responsible for our app's poor experience."
- hyperpape 11y ago"Either get a pad in the city center near your place of work or sleep under your desk. That’s what I did, why can’t you?" I love Poe's law, but this is not an instance. It's not really that funny either, but it's obvious parody.
- cmrx64 11y agoBut that's something that people have actually done, for example http://www.salon.com/2015/04/30/i_secretly_lived_in_my_office_for_500_days/ http://www.salon.com/2015/04/30/i_secretly_lived_in_my_offic... as a written account of it...
- hyperpape 11y agoYes, people have done it. But have they argued that everyone should do so in order to avoid going on trains?
- HelloNurse 11y agoIf you are confused, blame contemporary web development, an involuntary parody of what it should be.
- draw_down 11y agoThe existence of Poe's law isn't a license to just stop thinking critically.
- cmrx64 11y agoI'm not sure what you're getting at.