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the hack is that all the language in the piece is incredibly tied to Adam's writing. An over zealous fan? Perhaps. But hackers in the UK -- and all over -- who'

by imajes 17y ago

the hack is that all the language in the piece is incredibly tied to Adam's writing. An over zealous fan? Perhaps. But hackers in the UK -- and all over -- who've enjoyed his work will feel some kind of connection to it.

unalone 17y ago
Oh, please. If we're calling that a hack then it's a hack when I put butter on waffles, because it's using one thing to modify another. Furthermore: It is not incredibly fucking tied to Adams's writing (note that his name is AdamS and not Adam, kthx). There is only one thing that remotely relates to anything he wrote, and that's the "whooshing deadline" bit, and that was terribly unsubtle. Douglas Adams never wrote "it's okay to say 'that's all'", or "So, could you not, please?" It's just some jackass being snarky. This is not fucking Hacker News in the same way Monty Python is not fucking Hacker News. I might like John Cleese's use of language and movement but I'm not submitting any dead fucking parrot sketches, and I'm offended by your perversion of the word "hack" to defend your shitty submission, and by the fact that for a self-proclaimed Douglas Adams fan you're so fucking terrible at defending the man as a writer. This is not Hacking. At best it is nerdy. It is not News. It refers to an article that is a year and a day old. It is not valuable, it adds nothing interesting to the conversation, it is not interesting to look at, and so the only conversation of value to be had here is that Hacker News is jumping sharks all over the place, and I blame you for thinking that this was at all worth a moment of anybody's time. Unless the new standard for relevant content is "It uses Helvetica," this will be flagged and you will be made to feel momentary embarrassment before we forget this and go back to arguing over Twister or whatever it's called.
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by imajes 17y ago

unalone 17y ago

Oh, please. If we're calling that a hack then it's a hack when I put butter on waffles, because it's using one thing to modify another. Furthermore: It is not incredibly fucking tied to Adams's writing (note that his name is AdamS and not Adam, kthx). There is only one thing that remotely relates to anything he wrote, and that's the "whooshing deadline" bit, and that was terribly unsubtle. Douglas Adams never wrote "it's okay to say 'that's all'", or "So, could you not, please?" It's just some jackass being snarky. This is not fucking Hacker News in the same way Monty Python is not fucking Hacker News. I might like John Cleese's use of language and movement but I'm not submitting any dead fucking parrot sketches, and I'm offended by your perversion of the word "hack" to defend your shitty submission, and by the fact that for a self-proclaimed Douglas Adams fan you're so fucking terrible at defending the man as a writer. This is not Hacking. At best it is nerdy. It is not News. It refers to an article that is a year and a day old. It is not valuable, it adds nothing interesting to the conversation, it is not interesting to look at, and so the only conversation of value to be had here is that Hacker News is jumping sharks all over the place, and I blame you for thinking that this was at all worth a moment of anybody's time. Unless the new standard for relevant content is "It uses Helvetica," this will be flagged and you will be made to feel momentary embarrassment before we forget this and go back to arguing over Twister or whatever it's called.

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