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Comment by Kynlyn | Hacker News Reader

Good grief, some of you folks take yourself way too seriously. No, his pull request wasn't groundbreaking, but it was useful. His presentation was whimsical and light-hearted. So what? Is dry and boring better because it seems more academic or professional? Bleh.

Life is too short not to have some fun in your day job and kudos to vmg for doing exactly that. For the rest of you..lighten up. Seriously.

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A few paragraphs into the pull request and I just knew the HN comments would be full of energy-sucking Debbie Downers fazed and miffed by the word "yo", using the word "brogrammer" in their epithets, and saying things like "just present the facts" in a comment that not only creates zero value but squanders it from the pool.

In a bout of absolute irony-blindness, these Value Vacuums are far more insufferable than the very material they declared "distracting".

Sometimes it feels like people always have to find a flaw to latch onto and take some meaningless stand on, no matter how irrelevant. I don't know if it's for the fleeting sense of superiority, for the sake of discussion, or (as you put it) because they take themselves too seriously. I value the importance of criticism, but not when its primary motivations are self-serving.

For what it's worth, this is a phenomenon you see in most tech communities -- it happened on slashdot, proggit, and it's present here too.

God help you if you attempt to defend the use of anything except statically typed languages on proggit.

I've noticed it's worse here than it was about two years ago. Lots of people nitpicking on things that have nothing to do with the main point of the OP.

Seeing a pull request like this might be fun once in a while but it gets old very quickly when you deal with it somewhat frequently.

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