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While slightly enjoyable (for the first few paragraphs) I couldn't finish reading it. The author is trying _way_ too hard to be funny. I suppose it is written

by iiv 9y ago

While slightly enjoyable (for the first few paragraphs) I couldn't finish reading it. The author is trying _way_ too hard to be funny. I suppose it is written to another audience, perhaps the people that use tumblr find this funnier.

philbarr 9y ago
I ended up reading it like I read man pages. By which I mean, I skim through it really quickly and then do something else.
jwilk 9y ago
TL;DR: phishing
rsoto 9y ago
Agree, that could have been a great article, but the cool bro attitude and writing style is just too much for me. It's hard to read if I'm rolling my eyes every 3 sentences.
irl_zebra 9y ago
Yeah, I got to the first "this isn't her real name but that's what journalists do..." and rolled my eyes. I thought that was a one time thing, but it continued. I'll look for a summary in the comments here.
MBCook 9y ago
That's what I thought at first but as I kept going I ended up enjoying it more and more as it was so blatant at poking fun at terrible hacker/script kiddie tropes. I will mention that with the number of footnotes Marco Arment's little in-place footnote pop-up script he uses on his blog and Ben Thompson uses on Stratechery would have been appriciated. I forgot how useful that was compared to 'true' footnotes on long articles with lots of them.
- yoz-y 9y ago
  I think that they are using Bigfoot. Personally I prefer the jQuery-less version littlefoot.
  - MBCook 9y ago
    You're right. It's Bigfoot.
gk1 9y ago
I found it funny, but that's okay that's why everyone has a different favorite comedian.
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ameliaquining 9y ago
Speaking as a regular Tumblr user, Tumblr very much has its own dialect, which this piece is written in. It's not really meant for the Hacker News audience.
- gowld 9y ago
  It is for people who are a member of both audiences
- cypherg 9y ago
  this is an obvious parody
- sundarurfriend 9y ago
  Quite true, this is tumblr dialect + overthetop scriptkiddie lingo. The only thing missing from the dialect is maybe??? these question marks?????? i guess???
misingnoglic 9y ago
> That’s REAL nice of you to offer old mate LinkedIn but I’m absolutely golden as it is in terms of logouts so don’t even worry about it I’ll be just fine how it is NO REALLY don’t trouble yourself, I’m sure your CPU cycles are busy displaying everyone’s 6000 word Thinkpieces about “Cyber” for “Non-technical Business Decision Makers”. You can't tell me you didn't find this hysterical
- executesorder66 9y ago
  I found the length of that sentence hysterical.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
  I felt like I was having a stroke.
- goodbye- 9y ago
  Is that copy/pasted? The writing is atrocious.
fastftw 9y ago
Terribly annoying to read his overly saturated banter. Serious regret not reading the comments first.
megamindbrian 9y ago
If he doesn't try to be funny he goes to jail.

by iiv 9y ago

philbarr 9y ago

I ended up reading it like I read man pages. By which I mean, I skim through it really quickly and then do something else.

jwilk 9y ago

TL;DR: phishing

rsoto 9y ago

Agree, that could have been a great article, but the cool bro attitude and writing style is just too much for me. It's hard to read if I'm rolling my eyes every 3 sentences.

irl_zebra 9y ago

Yeah, I got to the first "this isn't her real name but that's what journalists do..." and rolled my eyes. I thought that was a one time thing, but it continued. I'll look for a summary in the comments here.

MBCook 9y ago

That's what I thought at first but as I kept going I ended up enjoying it more and more as it was so blatant at poking fun at terrible hacker/script kiddie tropes. I will mention that with the number of footnotes Marco Arment's little in-place footnote pop-up script he uses on his blog and Ben Thompson uses on Stratechery would have been appriciated. I forgot how useful that was compared to 'true' footnotes on long articles with lots of them.

yoz-y 9y ago
I think that they are using Bigfoot. Personally I prefer the jQuery-less version littlefoot.
- MBCook 9y ago
  You're right. It's Bigfoot.

gk1 9y ago

I found it funny, but that's okay that's why everyone has a different favorite comedian.

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ameliaquining 9y ago

Speaking as a regular Tumblr user, Tumblr very much has its own dialect, which this piece is written in. It's not really meant for the Hacker News audience.

gowld 9y ago
It is for people who are a member of both audiences
cypherg 9y ago
this is an obvious parody
sundarurfriend 9y ago
Quite true, this is tumblr dialect + overthetop scriptkiddie lingo. The only thing missing from the dialect is maybe??? these question marks?????? i guess???

misingnoglic 9y ago

> That’s REAL nice of you to offer old mate LinkedIn but I’m absolutely golden as it is in terms of logouts so don’t even worry about it I’ll be just fine how it is NO REALLY don’t trouble yourself, I’m sure your CPU cycles are busy displaying everyone’s 6000 word Thinkpieces about “Cyber” for “Non-technical Business Decision Makers”. You can't tell me you didn't find this hysterical

executesorder66 9y ago
I found the length of that sentence hysterical.
kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
I felt like I was having a stroke.
goodbye- 9y ago
Is that copy/pasted? The writing is atrocious.

fastftw 9y ago

Terribly annoying to read his overly saturated banter. Serious regret not reading the comments first.

megamindbrian 9y ago

If he doesn't try to be funny he goes to jail.