> "We don't really know what this is good for, but spent a lot of money and time making it and are under intense pressure to announce new things right now. If you can figure something out, we need you to help us."
Where is this quote from?
Where is this quote from?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
> Whether quotation marks are considered scare quotes depends on context because scare quotes are not visually different from actual quotations.
Though, as someone who had a flagged comment a couple years ago for a supposed "misquote" I did in a similar form in style, I think hn's comprehension of this form of communication is not super strong. Also the style more often than not tends towards low quality smarm and probably should be resorted to sparingly.
>My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.