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I disagree with the author. This isn't exactly a parody thread. A parody is "an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work" [1]
by Xcelerate 14y ago
I disagree with the author. This isn't exactly a parody thread. A parody is "an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work" [1]. For one thing, I would hardly call Hacker News comments "original work", and a simple creation like this hardly captures the full scope and breadth of comments on here.
Furthermore, I'm not really sure why this belongs on HN, because it's not very technical, and frankly, not very intellectually stimulating. People on here don't appreciate humor, so those who upvoted this should have known better. I've flagged the article.
Also, I've never even heard of Brad Conte.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody
- EGreg 14y agoI would like to piggyback off the original comment, and disagree. >People on here don't appreciate humor How could you possibly come to such a conclusion? I appreciate humor, and I am sure others do as well.
- baby 14y agoNo, OP is correct. * You omitted that HN is also a place to talk meta. * You misunderstand that a parody is not supposed to capture the full scope of something. * It was funny to read, that's all that matters.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- mixedbit 14y agoWho's the OP and why do we care about his opinion?
- sageikosa 14y agoHow could you not know the OP?
- ianstallings 14y agoI want to talk about JIT.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- hamax 14y agoThis article made me switch to Gentoo Linux. I'm only replying to you comment because it's the top voted one.
- yaddayadda 14y agoCorrection: "you" should be "your"
- magmatt 14y agoCorrection: "your" should be "you're"
- saraid216 14y agoCorrection: "you're" should be "ur"
- yaddayadda 14y agoI want to laugh, but the grammarian in me is cringing too much. If you don't understand the cause of my cringing, please read the Their/They're/There section of http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling EDIT: saraid216's response was funny, without being cringe inducing
- mbetter 14y agoGlad you cleared that up, I was unsure of how to react to saraid216's post.
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- hughw 14y agoHow could you have used the Internet more than three times and not heard of Brad Conte?
- joshAg 14y agoActually, if you've visited more than 3 sites on the Internet, you've probably used something he designed.
- Semaphor 14y agoI know this is off-topic, but could you teach Redditors how to make funny threads? It's very funny.
- mbesto 14y agoIt's these types of headlines and comments that make HN get worse and worse, year after year.
- obviouslygreen 14y agoSource?
- mbesto 14y agoWhy can't I downvote comments?!? Argggh.
- dageshi 14y agoI'm sorry, you seem to believe you can just throw around these opinions of yours without evidence. I demand you provide me with multiple peer reviewed scientific papers from journals of note to backup your so called claims. Frankly there's no point in even continuing this conversation until you do and we should just assume that I'm right and you're wrong.
- jiggy2011 14y agoDon't support the scientific paper racket. Instead have this link to a joel spolsky post from 2001 about why the web is dead. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000296.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000296.html
- j_baker 14y agoStop arguing the web is dead and just SHIP something. Your customers aren't paying you for blog posts.
- jiggy2011 14y agoMy customers aren't paying me for anything, we don't have a business model yet. How much you pay to read a blog post on why that isn't important?
- ianstallings 14y agoMy mind is blown.
- y0ghur7_xxx 14y ago> Brad Conte I'm honestly really curious about this. Could you elaborate?
- jamesbritt 14y agoThis.
- tfb 14y agoFound the redditor!
- tfm_reference 14y agoSeems more like a TFM [1] reader. [1] totalfratmove.com
- tucosan 14y agoYou, sir, made my day!
- epsylon 14y agoSpot-on. PG talked about this subject in relevant essay. [1] [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/relevantessay.html http://www.paulgraham.com/relevantessay.html
- hayksaakian 14y agoI actually clicked that link in hope that Paul graham had value to add to this discussion.
- j_baker 14y agoI don't understand why you're making this so complicated. This problem can be easily solved using unix pipes. There's no need to complicate your technology stack with extraneous definitions of "parody".
- mattstreet 14y agoSo meta, I can't even tell which of the comments replying to you are in on the joke.
- WalterGR 14y agoI accidentally downvoted you - meant to upvote. Sorry about that.