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I'm so excited an anonymous and angry member of the tech community is having such success at acting like everyone else is dumb and they are smart. This novel fo

I'm so excited an anonymous and angry member of the tech community is having such success at acting like everyone else is dumb and they are smart. This novel format is not at all tedious chest-beating that is then retroactively "satire" because snark verging on feral rage is fantastic. To whomever started the rumor that it's yet another didn't-and-never-will member of the community here should be ashamed of themselves. This is art. I especiky like how they meticulously avoid the majority of social issues to really drill down on the arbitrary tech decisions. That's how you know it's true satire and time we'll spent.

tyingq 10y ago
Good thing you didn't get into politics instead of tech. Thick skin is required over there.
- hnarn 10y ago
  I'm not sure that's still true considering the present administration.
  - yellowapple 10y ago
    Stop spreading fake news.
  - jacobush 10y ago
    Right! He breaks so many conventions, even that one. Interesting.
Inconel 10y ago
HN links to satirical website poking fun at HN. Some HN users find the summaries to be quite humorous. One HN user, in true HN virtue signaling fashion, takes the opportunity to be outraged that the satire doesn't adequately address broader social issues and is therefore a waste of time.
- KirinDave 10y ago
  "Virtue signaling." Ah excellent. We didn't have enough racist code talk from reddit and twitter in this discussion. "Satire" is also topical! On YouTube, "satire" is currently code for "rich gamer who was notoriously bad managing his income, now in a tantrum spiral over massive fraudulent viewer purges, pays non-english speakers to hold up English Nazi propaganda." Tell me, how much reddit gold have you gotten in your life? Because you talk like someone with a lot of Reddit gold.
  - coderdude 10y ago
    It's mostly comments like this that made me stop wanting to contribute in a meaningful way a few years back. This thread shows there's a capacity for the community to laugh at itself. We need that. Whatever your beef is, please find a different outlet for it.
    - KirinDave 10y ago
      Is writing snarky, content-free annotation websites making fun of people who need help here "laughing at ourselves?" This n-gate author is just another person in tech who things "this is wrong" is more valuable than "this is more correct." In the same vein as "shit HN says", it's just taking cheap shots. It's the tech equivalent of watching Dr. Phil and going, "Gosh at least that's not my life." It's the kind of mentality that claps when Linus Torvalds cusses someone out for reminding him he made his own bed with SHA1. I did stop contributing here for years was the utter frustration at how casual and horrifying things uttered were protected as "discourse" but any counter to them was "being uncivil." But ultimately I stay because I genuinely like to help people with tech and like to tell people who bring Reddit in here to go back to that crappy smugfest (or perhaps head to less orange pastures).
      - paublyrne 10y ago
        Is writing snarky, content-free annotation websites making fun of people who need help here "laughing at ourselves?" The tone of the annotations, while styled as snark, have a playfulness that neutralises any potential malice. If I noticed that I was seeing bitterness in everything, I might stop criticising for a while and start asking questions of myself.
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tyingq 10y ago

Good thing you didn't get into politics instead of tech. Thick skin is required over there.

hnarn 10y ago
I'm not sure that's still true considering the present administration.
- yellowapple 10y ago
  Stop spreading fake news.
- jacobush 10y ago
  Right! He breaks so many conventions, even that one. Interesting.

Inconel 10y ago

HN links to satirical website poking fun at HN. Some HN users find the summaries to be quite humorous. One HN user, in true HN virtue signaling fashion, takes the opportunity to be outraged that the satire doesn't adequately address broader social issues and is therefore a waste of time.

KirinDave 10y ago
"Virtue signaling." Ah excellent. We didn't have enough racist code talk from reddit and twitter in this discussion. "Satire" is also topical! On YouTube, "satire" is currently code for "rich gamer who was notoriously bad managing his income, now in a tantrum spiral over massive fraudulent viewer purges, pays non-english speakers to hold up English Nazi propaganda." Tell me, how much reddit gold have you gotten in your life? Because you talk like someone with a lot of Reddit gold.
- coderdude 10y ago
  It's mostly comments like this that made me stop wanting to contribute in a meaningful way a few years back. This thread shows there's a capacity for the community to laugh at itself. We need that. Whatever your beef is, please find a different outlet for it.
  - KirinDave 10y ago
    Is writing snarky, content-free annotation websites making fun of people who need help here "laughing at ourselves?" This n-gate author is just another person in tech who things "this is wrong" is more valuable than "this is more correct." In the same vein as "shit HN says", it's just taking cheap shots. It's the tech equivalent of watching Dr. Phil and going, "Gosh at least that's not my life." It's the kind of mentality that claps when Linus Torvalds cusses someone out for reminding him he made his own bed with SHA1. I did stop contributing here for years was the utter frustration at how casual and horrifying things uttered were protected as "discourse" but any counter to them was "being uncivil." But ultimately I stay because I genuinely like to help people with tech and like to tell people who bring Reddit in here to go back to that crappy smugfest (or perhaps head to less orange pastures).
    - paublyrne 10y ago
      Is writing snarky, content-free annotation websites making fun of people who need help here "laughing at ourselves?" The tone of the annotations, while styled as snark, have a playfulness that neutralises any potential malice. If I noticed that I was seeing bitterness in everything, I might stop criticising for a while and start asking questions of myself.

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