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"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site." - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/
by chockablock 13y ago
"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site." - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- 10098 13y agoHe's not complaining, he's asking. I also do not understand what on earth this tradition has to do with hacking. Or news.
- visakanv 13y agoYet strangely, hackers are finding this piece of news interesting. I wonder why? Could it be the idea of having a cat on a ship is interesting from a systems perspective? What's a ship's cat equivalent in a computer or human system? Some sort of roving troubleshooter?
- mwfunk 13y agoSure he's complaining. He complained in the form of a question, like you just did.
- gruseom 13y agoLots of things on HN have to do with neither hacking nor news. That's part of its charm, always has been. If PG can post about the margins of medieval manuscripts, then anything goes, so long as it isn't dumb. The only sin is to be uninteresting.