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I love your riff on Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to a corporate lawyer." Shall we call it Cryptonector's Razor? You inven
by cobbzilla 9y ago
I love your riff on Hanlon's Razor:
"Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to a corporate lawyer."
Shall we call it Cryptonector's Razor? You invented it, you name it :)
edit: someone else (not me) should name the principle that explains why so few people on HN have any sense of humor whatsoever.
- cryptonector 9y agoHmmm, I don't think I've heard anyone else express this razor, so, yeah, sure, you can call it after me, though it does seem vain of me to say that you should, so let's let you call it whatever you want. As to the HN-has-little-humor phenomenon, well, some people seem to think that dry == authoritative. That's BS, of course, but I don't know what to call that. I'll think about it.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> edit: someone else (not me) should name the principle that explains why so few people on HN have any sense of humor whatsoever. I think lots of people have sense of humor, but it's accepted here in very limited amount (and preferably when it's clever humor). I'd attribute this to HN being one of the few remaining places on the Internet where you can discuss serious/interesting stuff without immediately drowning in effort-free jokes and memes - and people want to keep it that way. Hence, the word I'd be looking for might be "oversensitivity".
- cobbzilla 9y agoI agree with everything you said, but c'mon, down-voting nerd-humor is just wrong. If you don't "get" the joke, just move on; only down-vote if the humor is inappropriate. In this case, I thought my nerd-humor was welcome, and in the worst case, someone who didn't know about Hanlon's Razor would be educated and maybe have a laugh. It's not like this was toilet humor. Have a heart, HN :)