Comment by CPLX

10 years 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

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CPLX

anonydsfsfs 10 years ago

Oh shit, 5 footnotes in a single comment? We've got another David Foster Wallace here.

wging 10 years ago
It'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 10 years ago
  
  Or every other HN comment?
  
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angersock 10 years ago

Some 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 10 years ago
> And that's why I have been phasing my tech news away from HN.
To where?
- angersock 10 years ago
  
  Lobste.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.