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Ask HN: 3 tips, 5 lessons and 1 grump

1 points by p0d 8y ago

Is it just me or has slapping a number on blog titles been done to death? I'm at the stage now were I don't read articles with this type of lead. I guess the culprit somewhere down the line was, "12 tips on how to be a blogging Jedi". I categorise these titles in the same group as phone calls which start, "Hi, how are you today?".

ggm 8y ago
My pet peeve is the list of inverted 'wrong' beliefs. Don't list a set of false negatives, because I never believe holding a guinea pig by its tail make its eye fall out. Tell me true things without clickbait false tags
- p0d 8y ago
  I had a guinae pig which did lose an eye. Never thought of selling the story ;-)
  - ggm 8y ago
    To misquote Oscar Wilde: To lose one guinea pig eyeball may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness