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Reminds me of 4chan's opinion of HN: http://rbt.asia/g/thread/S38087806

Thanks! I enjoyed your link much more than the OP. The 4chan version is consistently funny, while the OP is more like funny, SRS, funny, SRS, funny. That's interesting to SRS/SJW kind of people, but I try not to hang out where they hang out, they're too authoritarian.

SRS?

"Shit Reddit Says" i.e. http://www.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays

SRS = serious (not reddit).

Shit Reddit Says

related HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373

"It should be something like Java bytecode. Except not actually Java bytecode, because Java bytecode was made specifically for Java."

Don't really see anything wrong with this one. Although one can't see the context in which this comment was made.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7654065

Oh my god these are real? Hah! :)

I've not been able to find the one about big-O being premature optimization...

deleted? ;)

notice, loss of context make for a lot of them to sound ackward, dumb or extreme.

"GNU Screen is great. The only downside is that it can't persist through a machine restart."

This isn't crazy... checkpoint restart for something like this is viable.. infact, I think people are doing it.

I would like to request a Markov Generator of this.

BTW, enjoy the fun while it lasts because this isn't long for the front page.

Markov HN Titles https://twitter.com/HNTitles https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6815282

Epilogue: Guess we're stuck with reading about ssh configs.

If it were to remain unflagged this time around, I think it would show that HN is reaching some kind of social maturity.

Let's just wait and see.

Why?

Because the content really is hillarious, breaks the HN bubble a bit and is tightly related to this particular community.

To take that kind of joke badly shows immaturity and potentially some other psychological disorders, if one would try to ascribe them to community as opposed to individual.

http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/

Most patterns I see there involve JavaScript, Ruby, MongoDB and lots of incompetent morons.

I think I couldn't bear with the "Shit Internet Says" version.

Don't forget the heavy discrimination against women.

Or never-ending "Hey, ever heard about SSH config files!?". :D

>incompetent morons.

Your use of these terms is actually very offensive.

You need to attribute stuff you want to sneer at, to things like being under 30, being obsessed with fads, etc.

It's cute that you're offended on behalf of incompetent morons, or that you feel you're the arbiter comment quality.

"Why the hell should I worry about text encoding before sending a string into a TCP socket..."

"Well, TCP is a very simple protocol"

"Most of the time, if you're thinking about big-O, you're practicing pre-mature optimization."

This stuff is Golden! I may have to start paying attention to twitter again.

>Am I the only person that gets annoyed when I read "an order of magnitude" and the article doesn't mention whether it’s binary or decimal

I thought I was the only one! Seriously, that kind of ambiguity is on par with the imperial/metric issues that destroyed the Mars climate orbiter back in '99.

Conversations would be very tedious if we did not permit ourselves to rely on conventions.

I've always understood "an order of magnitude" to be between double and ten times. It is meant as shorthand to mean "several times" with no intention of any kind of precision.

This is really funny. But it should be a HN thread instead of a twitter account, so we can vote.

Someone should create a subhacknewsit hn/shithnsays.

This subreddit comes up when you search certain ones, the posts link back to the actual comments to. http://www.reddit.com/r/shns

The internet seems a bit obsessed with this kind of thing. From /r/cringepics to this, the goal seems to be to make fun of other people. It's like an extension of highschool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7690995

I'm genuinely curious, what takeaway is there other than "Ha ha, look at that idiot"?

Some say that it indicates social maturity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7690934

I don't understand how making fun of people is socially mature. Or is that not the goal here?

The tweets individually could be seen as digs at people, although they are (hopefully on purpose) not attributed.

Taken together I like to think it helps everyone realize that HN is a clique, albeit a generally knowledgeable, inclusive, and well-educated one. The HN community is no more immune to the sort of groupthink that inspires the thoughts published in the twitter feed than any internet community, and it never hurts to be aware of the fact.

My understanding of the linked comment is "to interact constructively with people making fun of you indicates social maturity", not "this twitter feed indicates social maturity".

I find reading this a very healing experience as I have witnessed the typical HN abuse.

A nice change to "HOT NEW COOL LOUD RUBY NODE CLOJURE MONGO HIP CAPITALISM!!!!!!!!!!" is "Haha, just look at this bunch of top notch fools."

https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says/status/412810234994757632

"I personally have been a PHP developer since 2001, I haven't maintained any bad code"

If I ever worked with someone who said something like that I'd either demand they be fired or quit immediately.

"I've long felt that type safety is largely a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist."

this made me LOL #lol

Oh. That was the one I came closest to agreeing with. :-|

Everyone on HN (including me) would be like "I don't say such silly stuff, others do!"

I love the order of magnitude one, but I think whoever said it was probably trying to be funny.

this shows that there are massive inefficiencies in this market

previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4375342

I hope it gets more updates.

Now I want to say something oblivious so I can be anontweeted too!

Most of everything on HN is shit. But we read it anyways all day long.

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It is actually "90% of everything is crud"

Remember: that statement is also recursive.

Everything in moderation.

Followed! Hilarious stuff. :-)

omg, I can't believe someone posted something inconsistent with feminism, or your old school software engineering background. What a loser.

This. Is. Hillarious.

Yup, I'm bookmarking this immediately. Of course we have to go deeper, so Shit Shit NH Says is coming soon.

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