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1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8176458 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8176458 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6296201

1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8176458 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8176458 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6296201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6296201 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3802458 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3802458 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3114391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3114391 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293652 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385068 7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123489

Twirrim 12y ago
Maybe the submitter is one of the ten thousand https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ Bet there are a few more that will find this submission too.
- emilioolivares 12y ago
  Ha, I'm one of the ten thousand for both the XKCD and this post. Lucky me!
  - golergka 12y ago
    You mean, for the whole XKCD? Not just this issue, but the whole thing? I envy you so hard right now. (Unless you were going to be productive today).
    - qznc 12y ago
      Productivity? Overrated. http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/ http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/
- yzzxy 12y ago
  This doesn't apply very well... HN is heavily archived... this comic is about being rude to people for not knowing about something, not justifying shoving the same cyclical content in people's faces repeatedly.
- johnaspden 12y ago
  I learned about diet coke and mentos from that cartoon. It was wonderful.
Pyxl101 12y ago
Once a year is about the right frequency. Recurring stories is one way in which a community shares and perpetuates its culture with newcomers. Some of them are a delight to read on that yearly cadence, like the SR-71 story about a pilot and his copilot becoming a crew. That said, it's wise to consider the frequency with which such things appear, individually and in total. Too much repetition and focus on memes becomes dysfunctionally self-obsessive. Not sure what the right answer is, but I can probably deal with once per year, short time on front page, and small % of total content.
- carleverett 12y ago
  Would you mind linking the SR-71 story? Somehow I never saw that.
  - teraflop 12y ago
    "The Ultimate Ground Speed Check": http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-1079127041 http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-107912...
    - carleverett 12y ago
      That was beautiful, thank you.
      - masklinn 12y ago
        An other neat one is "sand won't save you this time", from the delightful "Ignition!" via the Things I Won't Work With series (well worth reading in and of itself, even for non-chemists): http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time.php http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_sa...
        digi_owl 12y ago
        Gotta "love" something that is highly reactive to test engineers... The book also holds, iirc, a passage about a group of chemists sitting down for lunch when something on one of the shelves start getting uppity. They barely had time to dive under the table before the container started bouncing around the room.
obituary_latte 12y ago
/me is unsure whether this is condemnation or validation. anyway, let's ride the wave.
DiabloD3 12y ago
And the thing is, every time I see this story (I saw it years ago before I discovered HN), I read it in its entirety, and love the shit out of it. It really makes me sad the BOFH series of stories is over, I loved those too.
- blfr 12y ago
  The Register still carries them[1]. I don't know their exact relation to the original but I think they're official. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/data_centre/bofh/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/data_centre/bofh/
  - DiabloD3 12y ago
    The new stories are okay, but ... eh, its not the same thing. Its more brute force dickery between management and IT instead of the subtle interaction it used to be.
    - octo_t 12y ago
      I wouldn't say subtle. Sociopathic perhaps...?
  - wldcordeiro 12y ago
    I'm really confused about the order of these. The episodes are numbered but there's multiple sequences with no indication of what "series" is what.
dang 12y ago
Reposts are fine when a story hasn't had significant attention in the past year or so. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
brudgers 12y ago
The only significant discussion was almost five years ago. Or about the time the first iPads went on sale. And before either of us were members. I missed it all the other times and am glad it was reposted.
nocman 12y ago
Wow, I must have bad timing. I've had an account here for almost all of those, and I think I was probably lurking for the 1 or 2 occurrences when I did not have an account, but don't remember seeing it before. Or perhaps senility is setting in early. :-D
simplyluke 12y ago
I don't think this is a bad thing. It was either 1 or 2 years ago when I first read about this - newcomers to the community have to find out about things in one way or another.

Twirrim 12y ago

Maybe the submitter is one of the ten thousand https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ Bet there are a few more that will find this submission too.

emilioolivares 12y ago
Ha, I'm one of the ten thousand for both the XKCD and this post. Lucky me!
- golergka 12y ago
  You mean, for the whole XKCD? Not just this issue, but the whole thing? I envy you so hard right now. (Unless you were going to be productive today).
  - qznc 12y ago
    Productivity? Overrated. http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/ http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/
yzzxy 12y ago
This doesn't apply very well... HN is heavily archived... this comic is about being rude to people for not knowing about something, not justifying shoving the same cyclical content in people's faces repeatedly.
johnaspden 12y ago
I learned about diet coke and mentos from that cartoon. It was wonderful.

Pyxl101 12y ago

Once a year is about the right frequency. Recurring stories is one way in which a community shares and perpetuates its culture with newcomers. Some of them are a delight to read on that yearly cadence, like the SR-71 story about a pilot and his copilot becoming a crew. That said, it's wise to consider the frequency with which such things appear, individually and in total. Too much repetition and focus on memes becomes dysfunctionally self-obsessive. Not sure what the right answer is, but I can probably deal with once per year, short time on front page, and small % of total content.

carleverett 12y ago
Would you mind linking the SR-71 story? Somehow I never saw that.
- teraflop 12y ago
  "The Ultimate Ground Speed Check": http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-1079127041 http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-107912...
  - carleverett 12y ago
    That was beautiful, thank you.
    - masklinn 12y ago
      An other neat one is "sand won't save you this time", from the delightful "Ignition!" via the Things I Won't Work With series (well worth reading in and of itself, even for non-chemists): http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time.php http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_sa...
      - digi_owl 12y ago
        Gotta "love" something that is highly reactive to test engineers... The book also holds, iirc, a passage about a group of chemists sitting down for lunch when something on one of the shelves start getting uppity. They barely had time to dive under the table before the container started bouncing around the room.

obituary_latte 12y ago

/me is unsure whether this is condemnation or validation. anyway, let's ride the wave.

DiabloD3 12y ago

And the thing is, every time I see this story (I saw it years ago before I discovered HN), I read it in its entirety, and love the shit out of it. It really makes me sad the BOFH series of stories is over, I loved those too.

blfr 12y ago
The Register still carries them[1]. I don't know their exact relation to the original but I think they're official. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/data_centre/bofh/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/data_centre/bofh/
- DiabloD3 12y ago
  The new stories are okay, but ... eh, its not the same thing. Its more brute force dickery between management and IT instead of the subtle interaction it used to be.
  - octo_t 12y ago
    I wouldn't say subtle. Sociopathic perhaps...?
- wldcordeiro 12y ago
  I'm really confused about the order of these. The episodes are numbered but there's multiple sequences with no indication of what "series" is what.

dang 12y ago

Reposts are fine when a story hasn't had significant attention in the past year or so. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

brudgers 12y ago

The only significant discussion was almost five years ago. Or about the time the first iPads went on sale. And before either of us were members. I missed it all the other times and am glad it was reposted.

nocman 12y ago

Wow, I must have bad timing. I've had an account here for almost all of those, and I think I was probably lurking for the 1 or 2 occurrences when I did not have an account, but don't remember seeing it before. Or perhaps senility is setting in early. :-D

simplyluke 12y ago

I don't think this is a bad thing. It was either 1 or 2 years ago when I first read about this - newcomers to the community have to find out about things in one way or another.