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Someone: Here is how I put a sink in my bathroom. The geniuses of news dot ycombinator dot com: I am scratching my head. If you had simply put a kitchen in you
by platinumrad 6y ago
Someone: Here is how I put a sink in my bathroom.
The geniuses of news dot ycombinator dot com: I am scratching my head. If you had simply put a kitchen in your bathroom you would have gotten a sink for free. As a bonus, you would now be able to cook your dinner there.
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- mhh__ 6y agoNot mentioned: Subtle (possibly unintentional) humblebragging about how you either spend thousands of dollars a year on Amazon kitchens or that you need an Apple Kitchen because your time is so valuable (Both common motifs I see in discussions of said companies)
- hinkley 6y agoIf you put the garbage disposal into the tub, you can prepare dinner while showering!
- bzb4 6y agoHello, Kramer!
- dang 6y agoThis is the contrarian dynamic at work. I wrote about this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215601.
- Reelin 6y agoContrarian dynamic in action: I'm not sure the first part you wrote about "reacting from cache" and "triggered" capture the entire phenomenon. From personal experience, an empty comments section only leaves the article to comment on with no inspiration for specific content. A poorly written article will obviously provide plenty of fodder (and inspiration!) but hopefully won't end up on the front page. Meanwhile, a well written one (which hopefully does end up on the front page) often doesn't leave me feeling the need to add anything. Worse, truly brilliant technical articles generally leave me completely out of my depth as far as commenting goes but are really what I come here to read. So the more desirable an article is (to me), the less likely I am to be capable of adding anything of merit. Assuming the majority are in a similar situation (which could be totally wrong of course), it seems to me that the initial comments will necessarily select for people with less common view points. Of course that includes "triggered" as you say, but I think it's also all sorts of other things - a unique angle, factually incorrect, controversial but correct, a genuine misunderstanding, whatever. (The time constraint would certainly favor "triggered" reactions though.) That would then naturally lead to the rest of what you described. (Ridiculous idea: Run GPT-3 against each new submission to generate a set of "seed" comments for people to disagree with, elaborate on, make fun of, etc. It would probably just end up derailing things, but who knows?)
- dependenttypes 6y agoWhat outworlder suggested is not that extreme though. Certain scheme implementations are extremely small and you get a lot of advantages from using one for your config files, just look at emacs for example and compare what you can do with it to the notepad++ config. Surely you can see the advantage of being able to do (bind "C-x" (lambda (state) ...)) compared to (bind "C-x" predefinedaction), or the ability to use functions rather than have to duplicate code all over. Another positive is that it will make modding/shipping custom levels extremely easy. Just ask these that tried to mod (or config) return to castle wolfenstein or wolfenstein: enemy territory.
- platinumrad 6y agoYeah embedding a scripting language is not a crazy idea in the context of building a full game but what bothered me enough to make a snarky post was the multiple condescending replies ("I am scratching my head", Greenspun's Tenth Rule, etc.) in response to a small piece about writing a config file parser.
- zimpenfish 6y agoSimilar dynamic to StackOverflow (and probably for similar reasons.) Also why I am exceedingly unlikely to ever post anything I've done or written as a "Show HN".