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Well, your comment: ""landing a job as an accountant" "I wish I had gone to prison" What's the difference?" Didn't add anything to the discussion more than a
by tom_rath 17y ago
Well, your comment:
""landing a job as an accountant"
"I wish I had gone to prison"
What's the difference?"
Didn't add anything to the discussion more than a brief joke which attacks those who have chosen a difficult, strongly certified profession different than your own 'hacker' lifestyle. It's typical of the insular cliquishness which plagues all communities, including this one, and was more nasty than funny.
Kyro's comment seemed justified and would be appropriate to say to your face if he overheard you in a social setting.
Would you have delivered your own joke face-to-face to an accountant?
Further, would you have used your reputation in that 'real world' community to try to shoot him down the day after, as you're doing now?
- edw519 17y ago"Would you have delivered your own joke face-to-face to an accountant?" Of course. That's what makes it joke. I would never say something like that if I really believed it. And I can't imagine actually believing something like that. "...to try to shoot him down the day after, as you're doing now?" I'm not trying to shoot anyone down. I'm just trying to understand. Now I do. I'd suggest you lighten up, too, but I won't because that didn't work yesterday. Oops.
- mlok 17y agoHere on HN I much prefer interesting discussions rather than smarta$$ comments. However I think people overreact to your comment. It was a humorous answer to a sentence that was implying second degree, thus setting an "easy" atmosphere. Funny thing is that right now there is a humoristic (french) song about some guy feeling imprisoned in his university tiny bedroom ( http://www.deezer.com/track/35237 http://www.deezer.com/track/35237 )