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Cheer YC: Happy Holidays!
Wishing you and yours a very happy holidays and a great New Year.
- edu 19y agoYou karma whore... ;) (Yes, I upmoded you xD) But happy holidays!
- iamelgringo 19y agoYou're just jealous because you didn't think of it first... I upmoded you, too though. :) Regardless, it's still a nice thing to do, don't you think?
- Jd 19y agoNice, but since the holiday in question is Christmas you might as well say it.
- kyro 19y agoNew Years
- dcurtis 19y agoYou can't celebrate New Years until the 26th. Laws of Nordstrom.
- rms 19y agowhat about Hanukkah and the Winter Solstice? Also, the whole month of December is kind of a celebration of consumption in America. ;)
- gduffy 19y agoI think it's more productive to acknowledge all holidays and get 24% more audience, instead of going to extra effort to be sectarian in your good will. There are plenty of people like me out there, for instance. My family celebrated christmas at this time of year when I was younger. I still feel like having a happy holiday right around now, but I don't connect with any of the Jesus stuff. Thanks to the original poster for wishing me a happy non-christmas-holiday-that-I-celebrate-around-the-same-time-as-christmas (on mine, I get to argue with people on the Internet!). I feel your point has been thoroughly dismissed now. Happy holidays anyway!
- Jd 19y agoHappy Holidays to you too!
- Jd 19y agoActually, since I'm not celebrating the holiday in question either and am more to happy to argue on the Internet, here are my more extended thoughts. Even if some subset of the population is going to lose the Jesus bit doesn't it make more sense to keep the name of the holiday the same? For instance, if you are going to send out holiday well wishes (which I appreciate, I also upmodded the original poster) and going to send them out at a specific time (for example, Dec. 25) doesn't it make sense to refer to the holiday as 'Christmas' ? In my own limited personal campaign of holiday well-wishes, I usually end up only wishing Christmas greetings to people I know are Christians, sending more general holiday greetings to others at a time other than Christmas. In conclusion, my contention is that if you are going to send your greeting on Christmas, you might as well call it a Christmas greeting. If you send it Dec. 20, or 27, then maybe a holiday greeting.
- gduffy 19y agoIt's terribly more efficient to send out generic holiday wishes to everyone and stop associating with anyone who gets too offended that you didn't conform to their particular brand of holiday. I really don't want to keep a 6 billion row spreadsheet of holiday associations for everyone I might encounter and wish well of. Will mass confusion ensue if generic "happy holidays" cards are sent on the same day as christmas? Will people not know what day of the year it is? There is no utility to the nomenclature. No religion owns the day, and it's hardly a religious holiday to begin with. It doesn't offend me when people say merry christmas, it only offends me if they are attempting to correct somebody who says happy holidays. It's a superset. You're correcting someone who says "yes! it's the weekend!" with "no, but thank god it's Saturday!".
- terpua 19y agoI'm also a karma whore :) I was a few hours too early... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92249 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92249
- DarrenStuart 19y agomerry christmas don't work to hard over the holiday period.
- kieranoneill 19y agoHave a great one guys! Hope 2008 is prosperous for all!
- iamwil 19y agoAt first I thought there was a meaning to the colored numbers, but then I noticed they alternated. Too bad. It'd be neat to indicate how fast a story is moving up the list. However, it'd be completely inaccessible to color blind people. Anyway, Happy Holidays all.
- german 19y agoHappy holidays hackers! Edu, don't worry you still have New year ;)
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- JohnN 19y agohappy hols!
- ekanes 19y agoWishing y'all every personal and startup success in the new year. Kick some butt!
- ptn 19y agohappy whatever it is you celebrate!
- mrtron 19y agoQuite the Xmas color theme going on at YC Makes my eyes bleed red and green :)
- darius 19y agohappy 2008!
- codeLullaby 19y agoHolidays cure cancer.Happy holidays!
- albertcardona 19y agoI never understood what so great about changing the year. We have not needed an accurate sun/earth based calendar since the last time the majority of the population were farmers in need of harvesting and seeding. Weeks and months area also devoid of meaning, and again a need only for farmers, hunters and gatherers. Since we live in a digital age, why not celebrate periods that are a power of 2? Like 1024 ... counting my life in kilodays would relate a lot more to what I'm doing every day than the notion of the earth revolving around the sun.