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Can't believe someone at Twitter wrote this. It's riddled with semicolons. (ducks)
by robterrell 15y ago
Can't believe someone at Twitter wrote this. It's riddled with semicolons.
(ducks)
- streptomycin 15y agoThis made me laugh because I just realized that the "no semicolons in my Javascript" people are just modern day versions of Kurt Vonnegut: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/17178 http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/17178
- freerobby 15y agothis joke deserves more love.
- srl 15y agoI don't usually upvote jokes on HN, but when I do, I provide some actual content in the same post. OT (obviously): This is an example of a facet of humor I find rather difficult to explain. Most comedians pull this trick once or twice per show - the good ones, more often. You take the current topic of conversation, and link it (in a somewhat skewed way) with some previous joke. Somehow, this has an amplifying effect on the old joke, which continues to get stronger as you do it a few more times (to the same target). Anybody know of an explanation / name for this? (Did ... did I kill it?)
- Drbble 15y agoNetwork effect. It's the key to Twitters success.
- btucker 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_(comedy) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_(comedy)
- pfraze 15y agoFitting for a javascript joke to be a callback.
- stephengillie 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_gag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_gag
- MBlume 15y agoNow someone needs to link some Eddie Izzard videos...
- speg 15y agoSeinfeld was awesome for those.