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This is very nice. I've been surprised how many people don't know HN, it can definitely use some promotion.
by qwerty456127 4y ago
This is very nice. I've been surprised how many people don't know HN, it can definitely use some promotion.
- _0ffh 4y agoPlease, no! We'd need way more dangs than are available.
- adrian_mrd 4y agoFrom the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, paperback edition from 2010 on page 65 "Dang: Expressing annoyance or antipathy, or as an intensive" ;)
- eigart 4y agoBe careful what you wish for!
- ducktective 4y agoEternal March here we come
- qubex 4y agoI’m old enough to remember when that was coined.
- vetinari 4y agoI'm getting a bit older and my memory might not serve me very well, but it used to be Eternal September, right?
- Rediscover 4y agoYes, your recall matches mine. Also, try the page jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended.html on www.catb.org.
- ducktective 4y agoyeah but HN version is going to happen on March...at least that was the point of my joke
- Laaas 4y agoWhy would it be March for HN? End of the Japanese fiscal year?
- zerocrates 4y agoJust because it's about to be March right now, I think was the intention there.
- ilikecakeandpie 4y agoI wouldn't be too worried. I was a lurker for a long time before joining but it seems like there's an annual, if not bi-annual, flood from reddit or other sites that gets shut down because low effort comments and F-tier jokes/memes/puns get no engagement, removed, or downvoted to oblivion.
- bravura 4y agoYou're sweet, and we appreciate being a known secret, but I hardly worry about swathes of ffmpeg 6.0 nerds joining the community. Indeed they might be a welcome addition.
- ikt 4y agono ty!
- WithinReason 4y agoRule 1 of Fight Club
- brnt 4y agoWell, it does sometimes feel that way, a fight club.
- andrewinardeer 4y agoRule 2 as well.