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That page has an 'irony warning' so just watch out for those on other pages! It might just be my sense of humour (I'm the sort of person that doesn't need an '
by Zhyl 6y ago
That page has an 'irony warning' so just watch out for those on other pages!
It might just be my sense of humour (I'm the sort of person that doesn't need an '/s' tag and feels that it shouldn't be necessary if you told the joke properly), but it was pretty obvious to me even without the irony warning that the page was intended as a joke.
It looks like it was heavily inspired by the classic 'Tao of Programming' [0]. It uses a very similar style and even quotes the actual Tao Te Ching.
[0] http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html
- hutzlibu 6y agoI am with you on not wanting or needing to see /s ... but on a tutorial, where people actually struggle to understand anything at first read, using unmarked irony is maybe not the most helpful for them. Oh and a second thought on /s. For some time I only got my news through satire sites like the onion. And after I switched back to "real news" sites, I could not believe it was not satire. I mean come on, the world and the internet was always full of dumb people, but when even very high ranking people and institution say really out of the world things in all seriousness - I came to the conclusion, marking irony as irony is sadly sometimes important, in those interesting times we live ...
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoYeah, when we live in a world where people legitimately believe that Bill Gates is trying to use COVID vaccines to install microchips into people, you can't always be sure that someone giving an insane opinion isn being ironic or sarcastic.
- hutzlibu 6y agoI mean, we allways had flat earthers (even though I couldn't believe they were serious either, when I first stumbled upon them). But this new level is a bit unsettling.