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I like the original more without your embellishment. The addition sounds like every attempt at follow up humor on reddit.

• labster 8y ago
  Yeah but it's not Reddit, it's HN. You have to know your audience, read the crowd. On Reddit it's 90% sarcasm so there's no fixing it. Here it's the reverse and people take things seriously without a tell. You just have to bury the tell in another joke or it will ruin the funny.
  • Dylan16807 8y ago
    "given that software can't [ridiculous thing no one has ever claimed]" is plenty for a tell.
    • Aeolun 8y ago
      Just the fact that this “fix” exists tells you some people believe differently.
  • rujuladanh 8y ago
    If you can’t discern the joke, the joke isn’t for you to begin with; so it doesn’t matter.