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Made me chuckle. For those who don’t understand the reference this is satire coming from the comment on the Dropbox Launch post on HN in 2007 [0] [0] https:/
by sdfhbdf 4y ago
Made me chuckle.
For those who don’t understand the reference this is satire coming from the comment on the Dropbox Launch post on HN in 2007 [0]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- quickthrower2 4y agoThanks! My Poe’s Law-ometer was as a entangled as that famous cat for a moment.
- lisper 4y agoI'm amazed that you remembered that.
- Hamuko 4y agoIt might be the most famous Hacker News comment in existence.
- lisper 4y agoNews to me. TIL.
- serf 4y agoeither that or the Putnam comment of cperciva's. [0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
- nxmnxm99 4y agoJeez, that guy was full of himself though. Looks like 14 years later he isn't the roaring startup success story he predicted.
- geoduck14 4y agoI've looked through some of those comments, and I don't understand what is going on. Can you help, please?
- mbreese 4y agoSomeone was trying to knock cperciva down a peg or two as he was boasting about something higher up in the thread. The comment being something to the effect of, “have you won a Putnam? If not, stop talking.” The Putnam is an undergraduate mathematics competition. It’s prestigious to win. Colin was a Putnam fellow (top 5 scorers) in 1999. All in all, it was a pretty funny exchange at the time and quickly stopped the argument. Don’t assume that the person you’re talking with here is an idiot. It really demonstrates how HN users are varied with significant expertise in many areas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathematical_Competition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathem...
- dspillett 4y agoUp there with slashdot's impression of the first iPods: > No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame. (https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...)
- BirAdam 4y agoI actually preferred MiniDisc through the portable music player era. I didn’t stop using my MiniDisc player until iPhone 4, as my phone storage was suddenly sufficient to carry a good portion of my library.
- pmoriarty 4y agoThe first iPods were pretty crappy from a functional standpoint. There were other mp3 players which were more full-featured, and the early iPods crashed a lot. It's their aesthetic design which sold people on them. That's what Slashdot did not understand.
- the_other 4y agoThanks for explaining. I read the GP and thought "this person's way too serious".. but with the context I see the GP is actually a subtle treasure.