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Or uplyfting insights. Hey, we've got company: in the MS blog's comments, there's a fellow who archly informs the peasants that "I usually archive & star (book
by B1FF_PSUVM 10y ago
Or uplyfting insights.
Hey, we've got company: in the MS blog's comments, there's a fellow who archly informs the peasants that "I usually archive & star (bookmark) articles that have an amazingly interesting or peculiar technical aspects. With this one, I’ll gladly make an exception."
Dammit, Raymond Chen is out of pocket for a refund on that guy's subscription.
- mattnewport 10y agoI think you're misreading that, seems to me he means he'll make an exception and bookmark this article despite it not being technical because he enjoyed the story.
- knodi123 10y ago> Dammit, Raymond Chen is out of pocket for a refund on that guy's subscription. ?!? That sounded like a positive review from somebody who liked the article. He says it's neither amazingly interesting nor technical, but still good enough to bookmark.
- aryamaan 10y agoWoah, I misread it too and in retrospective, it looks like an honest mistake to make. That pessage could mean the both things (could give positive or negative intent). I wonder what other such good examples can be. And does such phenomenon is called with some name?
- FroshKiller 10y agoIt's called a backhanded compliment.
- yongjik 10y ago> I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. This was unexpected and rather difficult. There was some scattered clapping, but most of them were trying to work it out and see if it came to a compliment. - LOTR