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Comment by VorpalWay | Hacker News Reader

Shouldn't this have a "(1939)" suffix on the title according to HN rules? ;)

If an article is a few years old then it could be out-of-date. But if an article is almost 100 years old then its classic.

Should it though? I don't see such a rule.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

unwritten rules

Why should anyone know or care about it then? This is not a static platform with a static userbase.

another unwritten rule: don't take everything too serious that you read here ;)

Then you should adhere to yet another unwritten rule while we're at it: Don't use smileys. Especially not to change the meaning of your statements. You can just drop them and say what you mean, that makes communication easier and clearer. This is not facebook where people talk via emojis.

  Kaffee: Corporal, would you turn to the page in this book that says where the mess hall is, please?
  Barnes: Lieutenant Kaffee, that’s not in the book, sir.
  Kaffee: You mean to say in all your time at Gitmo you’ve never had a meal?

Your quote should give proper attribution according to the rules.

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