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Sorry if I am being negative here, but isn't this off topic?
by Aegean 17y ago
Sorry if I am being negative here, but isn't this off topic?
- mcantor 17y agoI downvoted you; this is why: 1. Your post apologizes for itself. This is offensive to both the reader and the writer. 2. You seem to have not read the very first point in the guidelines. I am reproducing them here for convenience: What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. This submission is clearly gratifying to intellectual curiosity, being a primer for a presumably esoteric but actually highly useful skillset, and it does not stumble into the territory of politics, crime, sports, or animal pictures. How is it off topic?