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Before you down-vote, read a bit of history. His Comment is ironically, and the death of BSD was believed to be a sure thing. It's called Irony, and it's a wil
by nix23 5y ago
Before you down-vote, read a bit of history. His Comment is ironically, and the death of BSD was believed to be a sure thing.
It's called Irony, and it's a wildly misunderstood language concept here on HN.
- viraptor 5y ago> It's called Irony It's sarcasm. And if we can't tell if something's a bad take or sarcasm, that's a good reason to downvote.
- nicklaf 5y agoConversely, this could also be one reason to read HN with showdead turned on....
- detaro 5y agoI don't think there is any operating system or widely used software where there isn't a "$group called it dead ages ago" example. it tells us absolutely nothing interesting, and isn't funny.
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- DanBC 5y ago> it's a wildly misunderstood language concept here on HN. An alternate understanding is that people are not as funny as they think they are.
- nicklaf 5y agoI'll never understand why HN hates humor so much. You could say it's dumb humor, but a community that can't even tolerate dumb tongue in cheek mischief isn't much of a community at all in my opinion. https://everything2.com/title/BSD+is+dying https://everything2.com/title/BSD+is+dying
- nicklaf 5y agoActually, maybe I do. This thread explains it fairly well, I guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575002 A part of me still would prefer the Slashdot way of organizing threads: +1 funny doesn't boost your karma, and (it's been a long time, but iirc) the page can be sorted chronologically instead of by upvotes.
- Fnoord 5y agoI am all for a good joke but this, like memes, is boring humor.
- simondotau 5y agoThat's just your opinion. Astonishingly, some people find The Big Bang Theory to be riotously funny while others find it tedious and boring.
- Fnoord 5y agoYup, my opinion, and I am allowed to act on it by downvoting such a comment.