I tried making this joke to the author when the book was released ("I purchased the book, but the link just took me to an empty page") and, unfortunately, they didn't get it and tried to give me customer support
What are you talking about? Did you perhaps cross-post by accident to the wrong thread?
Maybe the author's response was appropriate and it was you who missed the joke
Why would you disagree with the parent post and then fail to provide the title of the book in your own response? Just give the name of the book, please.
What book? There is no book discussed in this article
What article? This is an HN-only discussion post.
Weird HN bug: I somehow managed to get to an orphan /reply page not attached to any submission thread.
What is HN?
Hungarian notation.
Where am I?
You are in:
Dark
You can hear nothing, smell nothing, taste nothing, see nothing, feel nothing,
and are not even certain who you are.
I suppose this joke only works when you've read it. I should take my meds, else I'll forget.
Just took mine. Please take proper quarantine measures when reading back these comments then, or you'll put us all at risk.
Log entry: Tried building a wall out of hard drives, but Gate walked around them and kept coming. Walls of information ineffective. I've forgotten my name, so I suspect this may be my final entry.
You can’t forget to take class W mnestics. Not unless someone prevents you from taking them.
Remember to check your pancreas regularly.
This bullshit attitude to make in-jokes that don't make any sense to people not part of the cultural or social phenomenom that an article is about is one of the most infuriating aspects of them. You can barely find proper user review for books like this or Welcome to Night Vale or such.