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There is some inspired content in that link. My personal fave: We're disrupting the 1gorillion dollar [insert industry] sign up for our beta to check it out[0]
by CPLX 11y ago
There is some inspired content in that link. My personal fave:
We're disrupting the 1gorillion dollar [insert industry] sign up for our beta to check it out[0].
[0]We just need your name, address, credit card, and birth date. To verify your a human.[1]
[1] and we store all of this in clear text files on our server.[2]
[2] which was written using [insert new hipster language] by some guy who's been programming for 3 weeks.[3]
[3] but we promise not use your data to mine the shit out of you and sell it to advertisers.[4]
[4] jk
- anonydsfsfs 11y agoOh shit, 5 footnotes in a single comment? We've got another David Foster Wallace here.
- wging 11y agoIt's probably making fun of Paul Graham's essays, which have footnotes in that style (though not usually nested)[0]. [0] Like this.
- matt-attack 11y agoOr every other HN comment?
- a8da6b0c91d 11y agoCitation needed.
- anonbanker 11y agomy post history is guilty of this crime quite often. will that count?
- angersock 11y agoSome are kinda on point: [1000 points] Some hot-button political issue that we know nothing about [-1 points] An O(n) time algorithm for multiplying matrices And that's why I have been phasing my tech news away from HN. It's really enjoyable watching the 4chan folks take the piss out of here--though a lot of the posts are, I suspect, newfags (in the vernacular) posting purposefully bigoted things in language that isn't typical to /g/.
- kentt 11y ago> And that's why I have been phasing my tech news away from HN. To where?
- angersock 11y agoLobste.rs is a good place, sometimes 4chan (though it's mostly garbage, at least it's honest and obviously garbage), sometimes the relevant project issue trackers and website myself, sometimes twitter.