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TLDR: Write like Hemingway, not like Faulkner.
by edw519 14y ago
TLDR: Write like Hemingway, not like Faulkner.
- Swizec 14y agoYou mean the guy who wrote a 490 page book about one bloke blowing up a single bridge? Oh yeah, totally write like Hemingway if you want the internet to pay attention.
- zzzmarcus 14y agoThe book was not about blowing up a bridge.
- jacobolus 14y agoHemingway is not the example you’re looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_Theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_Theory
- nswanberg 14y agoI agree but edw519 is a smart guy and I would give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he attempted to capture the essence of a "tl;dr" comment: short, vaguely corresponding to the material, and ultimately misleading.
- asveikau 14y agoActually, he already wrote the TLDR summary for you. It was: "If you summarize your idea in your first sentence, writing "TLDR" is superfluous." He wrote the TLDR summary, he just didn't preface it with TLDR. That to me is the great thing about this article. He's following his recommended practice to illustrate the point.