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I was once told by somebody wise that if a post asks a question, then the answer is usually no. e.g.: Is Mountain Lion going to kill Windows 8? .. etc.
by georgebarnett 14y ago
I was once told by somebody wise that if a post asks a question, then the answer is usually no.
e.g.: Is Mountain Lion going to kill Windows 8? .. etc.
- sirn 14y agoBetteridge's Law of Headlines[1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
- peterbe 14y agohaha!
- lubutu 14y agoA meta-corollary: whenever a headline with a question mark appears on Hacker News, there will be at least one comment referring to Betteridge. (Please, can this stop?)
- jamesaguilar 14y agoUltra-meta: Whenever a repeating meme occurs on the internet, there will be someone asking for it to stop. And the answer to whether it will stop will be no.
- StavrosK 14y agoRecursive-super-ultra-meta-induction: Whenever someone refers to a level of meta-ness, someone else will refer to level n+1.
- jamesaguilar 14y agoTransparently false: this thread's length is measurably finite.
- StavrosK 14y agoFor now.
- pjscott 14y agoIt will always stop, at least for the most part. It will take a long time, though, and by then it will only be a dim memory, so you probably won't notice. (Netcraft confirms: BSD is dying!)
- joering2 14y agoWhy? I never heard about this "law", and now I just learnt about it.