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(I'm assuming that this is not satire - it looks a bit too real) I really love it when people carry jokes into serious business and take it all the way to the
by skrebbel 7y ago
(I'm assuming that this is not satire - it looks a bit too real)
I really love it when people carry jokes into serious business and take it all the way to the end. There's a lot of guts in that. I envy that level of self-confidence and hope to one day get there myself.
That said, somehow I love it even more when such jokes get featured on HN and, invariably, shares of dry humorless grumpy people complain that they can't possibly take people who make jokes seriously. I always wonder what brings someone to distrust ballsy humor, I can't really wrap my head around it.
Personally, if someone has the guts to not only make a silly joke with friends over a beer, but actually turn it into a real thing (in this case, a venture fund), then that's the kind of person I want to do business with. That sort of guts shows elsewhere too (Elon Musk is a nice example).
- Haga 7y agoIf you can't laugh and experiment, your childhood has ended and one will never innovate agae.
- TomMckenny 7y agoSmart also because if no one else has done it this way, it may attract extra attention. And they can always fall back on traditional marketing to attract boring people if need be.
- Stratoscope 7y agoAs another example, the popular Flask web framework for Python (which I'm using at this very moment) started as an April Fool's joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flask_(web_framework) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flask_(web_framework) http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/4/3/april-1st-post-mortem/ http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/4/3/april-1st-post-mortem/
- ticktockten 7y agoI had no idea! Thanks for sharing. Having spent so much time with flask, it's a joke that I took seriously enough :)
- chrisseaton 7y agoI think a lot of people value that HN isn’t the kind of place where you get puns and flippant comments and posts.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoYes we need to manage out those sort - they would better suited an actuaries Job (accountancy would be to racy for them).
- mrzool 7y agoI turn to Reddit for that. Here on HN humour is generally very lacking and even frowned upon. Things lighten up a bit when people like idlewords[1] show up, but that's pretty much the exception. For a recent example, just read through the comments in here[2] (a Show HN that reached the homepage yesterday). This is a regrettable state of affairs. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21627714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21627714 Edit: forgot that HN also lacks Markdown besides humour