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Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood today, but really, why must technical articles be festooned with meme GIFs featuring abusive language and children injuring thems
by bshimmin 12y ago
Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood today, but really, why must technical articles be festooned with meme GIFs featuring abusive language and children injuring themselves? What does it add? If your content is so boring to you, or to your prospective audience, that you think it needs livening up with that sort of garbage, maybe just don't write it in the first place.
- matrixagent 12y agoI tend to agree with you, but the article wasn't supposed to be very technical in the first place, and: both those GIFs are from Dexter, the show of which I used a season in my tests. It's not completely unrelated.
- bshimmin 12y agoI didn't realise they were from Dexter, though I stand by what I said. Clearly the masses on HN agree with your choices, though, since I'm getting down-voted! I'm writing some technical documentation for a project right now - perhaps I'll put in a few tasteful images from Baywatch to make sure the project managers who have to read it will make it to the end.
- nitrogen 12y agoTastes vary, and what one finds offensive another might find hilarious. As long as we all get along in public, it shouldn't matter too much what makes us laugh when among friends.