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Any reason your snark has to be obligatory? Especially since it's about a pedantic issue with the video about the service rather than the service itself? The t

Any reason your snark has to be obligatory? Especially since it's about a pedantic issue with the video about the service rather than the service itself? The thing is, you've actually got something interesting to say -- we should certainly consider the privacy implications, and whether this could change limits on government intrusion into your correspondence -- but you buried the lead and presented it in a negative way for no clear reason other than you were feeling like being snarky toward someone's hard work.

Domenic_S 13y ago
> buried the lead More snark: it's "buried the lede".
- michaelmior 13y ago
  I believe "lead" is also acceptable spelling.
  - Domenic_S 13y ago
    I did time at a startup for journalists so this is burned in my skull. Lede is journalism jargon, and "burying the lede" is a phrase borrowed from journalism. > Journalistic ledes emphasize grabbing the attention of the reader. In journalism, the failure to mention the most important, interesting or attention-grabbing elements of a story in the first paragraph is sometimes called "burying the lede". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paragraph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paragraph > Bury the lead sort of works, but bury the lede is the conventional spelling of this expression. http://grammarist.com/usage/lead-lede/ http://grammarist.com/usage/lead-lede/ "Lede" makes a distinction between lead (leed) and lead (pb/led).
wwwarhawk 13y ago
Hahaha. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the most typical HN user I've ever seen. Seriously, that gave me a good laugh.
skore 13y ago
Conversely, you restate the typical inability to look beyond a minor layer of snark for the benefit of not even getting to the interesting points. And yes, I've been there myself multiple times. What I'm trying to say is - both things really aren't so relevant that we should obsess about them. They're there, we cannot help ourselves, let's get on with things.

Domenic_S 13y ago

> buried the lead More snark: it's "buried the lede".

michaelmior 13y ago
I believe "lead" is also acceptable spelling.
- Domenic_S 13y ago
  I did time at a startup for journalists so this is burned in my skull. Lede is journalism jargon, and "burying the lede" is a phrase borrowed from journalism. > Journalistic ledes emphasize grabbing the attention of the reader. In journalism, the failure to mention the most important, interesting or attention-grabbing elements of a story in the first paragraph is sometimes called "burying the lede". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paragraph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paragraph > Bury the lead sort of works, but bury the lede is the conventional spelling of this expression. http://grammarist.com/usage/lead-lede/ http://grammarist.com/usage/lead-lede/ "Lede" makes a distinction between lead (leed) and lead (pb/led).

wwwarhawk 13y ago

Hahaha. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the most typical HN user I've ever seen. Seriously, that gave me a good laugh.

skore 13y ago

Conversely, you restate the typical inability to look beyond a minor layer of snark for the benefit of not even getting to the interesting points. And yes, I've been there myself multiple times. What I'm trying to say is - both things really aren't so relevant that we should obsess about them. They're there, we cannot help ourselves, let's get on with things.