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This is a sexist remark. It all depend on the content of the article. Did you take time to read the article? It's just great - full of technical details, inclu

by guylhem 14y ago

This is a sexist remark. It all depend on the content of the article. Did you take time to read the article? It's just great - full of technical details, including the reasoning behind the creation of the hack. Many times I've seen dumb things in the front page - complex pointless hacks (I remember one about locales and printf which advocated a libc recompile while I suggested a perl oneliner). This is a genuinely interesting and creative hack. EDIT: as I mentionned below, "The title is misleading" - it is linkbait. But the content is there.

mememememememe 14y ago
That's not sexist.
zizee 14y ago
Good article, link baity title.
- djisjke 14y ago
  Sure may be. On that note, have there been any non-linkbaity titles on HN in, well, as long as one may remember?
  - zizee 14y ago
    Sure there is, a quick look shows: Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs Machine Learning: Neural Network vs Support Vector Machine Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design But you are right that there is a lot of link-baitiness on HN. Doesn't mean we can't wish for better.
    - kolleykibber 14y ago
      Who would have thought this title was link bait?
      - zizee 14y ago
        Sorry, not sure what you are saying? Perhaps there is some undetected sarcasm in your comment?
drivebyacct2 14y ago
I think there might be a misunderstanding here, just want to make sure you guys are on the same page (as I am perceiving it). I don't think he is saying it shouldn't make it on HN, if anything he's speculating as to whether or not it would be on the #1 spot if it were a male sex hack instead..
trhtrsh 14y ago
Fixing bugs in widely used Unix software, maintaining compatibility with the existing related components and promoting cross-platform portability, for the benefit of thousands of future users, and documenting the experience as an educational tidbit for others, is not dumb.

by guylhem 14y ago

mememememememe 14y ago

That's not sexist.

zizee 14y ago

Good article, link baity title.

djisjke 14y ago
Sure may be. On that note, have there been any non-linkbaity titles on HN in, well, as long as one may remember?
- zizee 14y ago
  Sure there is, a quick look shows: Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs Machine Learning: Neural Network vs Support Vector Machine Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design But you are right that there is a lot of link-baitiness on HN. Doesn't mean we can't wish for better.
  - kolleykibber 14y ago
    Who would have thought this title was link bait?
    - zizee 14y ago
      Sorry, not sure what you are saying? Perhaps there is some undetected sarcasm in your comment?

drivebyacct2 14y ago

I think there might be a misunderstanding here, just want to make sure you guys are on the same page (as I am perceiving it). I don't think he is saying it shouldn't make it on HN, if anything he's speculating as to whether or not it would be on the #1 spot if it were a male sex hack instead..

trhtrsh 14y ago

Fixing bugs in widely used Unix software, maintaining compatibility with the existing related components and promoting cross-platform portability, for the benefit of thousands of future users, and documenting the experience as an educational tidbit for others, is not dumb.