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“ My M.O. with these posts: write it like it was an HN comment, and then edit the sentences to be shorter. I'm glad people like it, though.” From the button of
by punnerud 4y ago
“ My M.O. with these posts: write it like it was an HN comment, and then edit the sentences to be shorter. I'm glad people like it, though.”
From the button of the comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26747701 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26747701
He is often on HN, look at the karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek
- tptacek 4y agoKurt and Chris wrote this, not me. :)
- ushakov 4y agowait, you have hired people to post with your HN account? (YC-Founders take notes)
- linux2647 4y agoI think tptacek is referring to the article was written by Kurt and Chris, not the HN comments
- ushakov 4y agoit says "Thomas Ptacek" is author though? only further confirms my assumption that tptacek has an army of clones
- tptacek 4y agoFuck no. If you asked me whether I valued Fly.io more than my HN account, I'd have to think about it. I have, uh, an HN problem. We actually hoped not to see this post on the front page! We have a mode of writing for HN ("has to be interesting for people who will never use Fly.io") and there's a Fly Machines post in the works that fits that model. At any rate: I had very little to do with this post; if you liked it, you like Chris Nicoll, who writes for us professionally. And Kurt, of course, who wrote the original guts of this post, and also has been beating the Fly Machines drum inside of Fly.io for most of the last year.
- ushakov 4y agofair enough! although, as a fellow HN addict i wish i’ve had a private army of comment posters so i don’t have to nice job on karma though, do you still remember at which point they start paying dividends? :D
- tptacek 4y agoA private army of HN commenters for me would be like a private army of people to take bath salts for a bath salts addict; it'd defeat the purpose. :)
- ushakov 4y agofight the addiction by outsourcing it now, that's my style
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoBut if you were part of the private army of HN commentators, well, you would say that now, wouldn't you ? :-) (Post by HNoutsourced.com, why not sign up today?)