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Netcraft confirms it: I, for one, welcome our Hacker News overlord, CmdrTaco who sometimes dwelves in these part of the interweb. He's got a beowulf cluster of hot grits that Nathalie Portman would approve of. ;)

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You missed the Cowboy Neal option

+5, Funny

Sounds like it’s time for another lively thread about whether FireFly is the best sci-fi show ever. Things get awkward when Wil Wheaton joins the conversation and proceeds to know more about FireFly than anyone else.

You had me until 'whether'

He must be new here

or my other favourite character... the illusive Roland Piquepaille and his "articles" that pioneered blogspam based on the way ./ers would react to him.

> Roland Piquepaille

Wow! I haven't heard that name in nearly 20 years, but the instant I saw it I had a negative reaction. I didn't even know why at first until I read the rest of your sentence.

Scary to think that it's been that long.

I hadn't realized that Roland passed away almost 15 years ago...

I forget, is this the persona responsible for that "voices from the hellmouth" series? the one that, retrospectively, coincides with my /. usage starting to slope negative.

omg, voices from the hellmouth was sooo cringe. Who was that? typetypetype

oook, JonKatz, and it lives on

(tl;dr for my post here, there was a segment of the slashdot population who really identified with the Columbine shooters, the trench-coat mafia, i guess in terms of being picked on at school by the popular kids or something? it was sort of like "of course Columbine, what did you expect from those of us living at the hell-mouth you've created for us" If I have any of that wrong it's because I couldn't stand reading any of it in the first place)

https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/04/25/1438249/voices-from...

https://news.slashdot.org/story/00/04/20/1117204/Voices-from...

https://features.slashdot.org/story/00/10/23/1521250/voices-...

https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/bw-voices-from-the-hell...

> tl;dr for my post here, there was a segment of the slashdot population who really identified with the Columbine shooters

I mean the reason YC (and by extension, HN) became a thing was largely because of pg posting on Slashdot about similar themes.

1. See a slashdot poll

2. Point out the missing Cowboy Neal option

3. ???

4. Profit!

My username has been consistent between ./ and HN.

me2

you did way better than you know who:

"While trying to be First Post on a Beowulf cluster article, my site got Slashdotted just as I poured hot grits down my pants. 'You must be new here,' commented CowboyNeal, who, in Soviet Russia, welcomes our new overlords. Now I'm just waiting for step '???' before I hit Profit! Surely that's worth +5, Funny?"

You insensitive clod!

Give me a sec - just trying to hide a link to a, er, goat-related website in a comment and pretending it's related to the story.

Also writing a comment about what a worthless human Jon Katz is because he can't compile Linux from source.

No wifi. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

Also, BSD is dying.

Is this the news for nerds or hackers?

Is it the stuff that stirs or matters?

from the don't-forget-your-yearly-physical dept.

FR1ST PR0ST

The above comment is owned by The Poster.

I wonder if APK could drop in and tell us about blocking ads using the mysterious magic of the hosts file.

Or if The Glorious MEEPT!! could show up and smack us with some scathing satirical commentary on Linux fans.

My UID is lower than yours

Whatever, n00b. (3352)

Wow! This took me back.

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