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I disagree with the author. This isn't exactly a parody thread. A parody is "an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work" [1]. For one thing, I would hardly call Hacker News comments "original work", and a simple creation like this hardly captures the full scope and breadth of comments on here.

Furthermore, I'm not really sure why this belongs on HN, because it's not very technical, and frankly, not very intellectually stimulating. People on here don't appreciate humor, so those who upvoted this should have known better. I've flagged the article.

Also, I've never even heard of Brad Conte.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody

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I'm sorry, you seem to believe you can just throw around these opinions of yours without evidence. I demand you provide me with multiple peer reviewed scientific papers from journals of note to backup your so called claims.

Frankly there's no point in even continuing this conversation until you do and we should just assume that I'm right and you're wrong.

Don't support the scientific paper racket. Instead have this link to a joel spolsky post from 2001 about why the web is dead. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000296.html

Stop arguing the web is dead and just SHIP something. Your customers aren't paying you for blog posts.

My customers aren't paying me for anything, we don't have a business model yet.

How much you pay to read a blog post on why that isn't important?

My mind is blown.

No, OP is correct.

* You omitted that HN is also a place to talk meta.

* You misunderstand that a parody is not supposed to capture the full scope of something.

* It was funny to read, that's all that matters.

Who's the OP and why do we care about his opinion?

How could you not know the OP?

I want to talk about JIT.

Spot-on. PG talked about this subject in relevant essay. [1]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/relevantessay.html

I actually clicked that link in hope that Paul graham had value to add to this discussion.

This article made me switch to Gentoo Linux.

I'm only replying to you comment because it's the top voted one.

Correction: "you" should be "your"

Correction: "your" should be "you're"

Correction: "you're" should be "ur"

I want to laugh, but the grammarian in me is cringing too much. If you don't understand the cause of my cringing, please read the Their/They're/There section of http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

EDIT: saraid216's response was funny, without being cringe inducing

Glad you cleared that up, I was unsure of how to react to saraid216's post.

I don't understand why you're making this so complicated. This problem can be easily solved using unix pipes. There's no need to complicate your technology stack with extraneous definitions of "parody".

Or you can use Lisp S-expressions, which are much more elegant and powerful.

Or perl regexps for that matter.

I would like to piggyback off the original comment, and disagree.

>People on here don't appreciate humor

How could you possibly come to such a conclusion? I appreciate humor, and I am sure others do as well.

I think that everyone likes humor, we just also know what isn't funny.

JIT isn't funny.

So meta, I can't even tell which of the comments replying to you are in on the joke.

I accidentally downvoted you - meant to upvote. Sorry about that.

I know this is off-topic, but could you teach Redditors how to make funny threads? It's very funny.

It's these types of headlines and comments that make HN get worse and worse, year after year.

Source?

Why can't I downvote comments?!? Argggh.

> Brad Conte

I'm honestly really curious about this. Could you elaborate?

This.

Found the redditor!

Seems more like a TFM [1] reader.

[1] totalfratmove.com

You, sir, made my day!

How could you have used the Internet more than three times and not heard of Brad Conte?

Actually, if you've visited more than 3 sites on the Internet, you've probably used something he designed.

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