Hacker News Reader

Comment by tgarma1234 | Hacker News Reader

For those that don't get the joke: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/106-is-that-you-kd/

I can't imagine listening to the audio, but reading the transcript is nauseating due to the frequent occurrence of the work like.

197 occurrences of the word like.

This particular section of the transcript annoyed me the most.

---

He’s fired. And becomes like basically a celebrity for certain parts of like the right. And they were kind of like… Like this is not what he was necessarily saying about himself, but for them, it’s like… He’s like this perfect symbol of like the qualified, brilliant, genius coder who’s the best person for the job, whatever his race or gender happen to be, who said one reasonable thing and like got fired because of political correctness.

That's the paragraph that led me to hitting the back button.

That couldn't possibly be the source of this joke, so why this particular link?

(Also, frankly, this interview doesn't exactly present its participants as the sharpest tools in the shed.)

The comments that followed my comment are the reason I wish it was possible to simply delete a ycombinator/hacker news profile.

It's an entertaining episode from a show I enjoy. Apparently, there are no other fans of the show here.

Very sorry.

You're entitled to your tastes; just because no other fans of the show chimed in, doesn't mean you need to feel sorry for posting it (though some explanation of relevance to the topic would be appreciated).

So don't worry; in a day nobody will remember this subthread anyway :).

It builds up over time with a slow drip drip drip. Just the constant soul destroying pointlessness of socializing on the internet though comment boards.

Anyways, I googled it and no it is not possible to delete a hacker news account. I successfully disabled reddit, facebook, twitter and linkedin though. So, this is the last outpost of an abysmal time on the web.

Thanks everyone. I am out.

Wtf is this?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com