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Synthetic post? So this is a joke?
by pyrophane 10y ago
Synthetic post? So this is a joke?
- paulcole 10y agoI think the word they were looking for is synergistic.
- manicdee 10y agoNo, synthetic. This poster is taking the piss out of the other poster complaining about a workaholic "team" member making life difficult for the rest of the team. OP is not actually asking for advice, just being antagonistic.
- webmaven 10y agoHey, I am not being antagonistic. This comment on the other post asked what seemed to me to be a good question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721029 I tried to sincerely imagine and write this post from a POV that would make the opposite complaint. If it comes across as sarcastic, I failed.
- bbcbasic 10y agoI didn't see it as sarcastic.
- manicdee 10y agoPoe's law strikes again I suppose. The person in your OP is frustrated by everyone around them being human and having priorities other than the common project. Not a particularly nice person to be around, I imagine. Like Elon Musk (or Tesla, or other prodigy) without the good bits.
- webmaven 10y agoPossibly not nice to be around (certainly not nice to work with, much less for), and as far as the "good bits" are concerned, it is likely too early in their career to tell (hard to imagine this attitude surviving past their 1st or 2nd job)
- webmaven 10y agoNo, I meant synthetic. As in artificial, ersatz, or deliberately created. I suppose I could have used the word 'fiction', however that didn't seem right without some sort of qualifier or modifier (along the lines of 'design fiction'), but nothing appropriate came to mind.
- webmaven 10y agoNot a joke, but it isn't true either (at least, it isn't true of me). I tried to plausibly invert the 'Ask HN: How to handle a workaholic colleague?' post after I came across this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721029