It's a tiny bit annoying but I'm not asking for a refund.
"All right, I've been thinking. When HN gives you recycled content, don't make comments - make the submitter take the story back! Get mad! I don't want your damn recycled stories, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see Paul Graham! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson recycled content! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's going to to burn your house down! With the recycled content! I'm going to get my engineers to invent a combustible anecdote that burns your house down!"
My guess is higher but I don't care to research it.
The '500 mile email' and 'The story of Mel the Real Programmer' are trotted out on a regular basis also.
As long as you can glean the story from the headline, you can ignore it. It's a tiny bit annoying but I'm not asking for a refund.
It's a tiny bit annoying but I'm not asking for a refund.
"All right, I've been thinking. When HN gives you recycled content, don't make comments - make the submitter take the story back! Get mad! I don't want your damn recycled stories, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see Paul Graham! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson recycled content! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's going to to burn your house down! With the recycled content! I'm going to get my engineers to invent a combustible anecdote that burns your house down!"
Don't give him lemons, either.
Sure its a bit annoying, but this is the first time a new member gets to read a fascinating story like this one.
I wish we could put this classic stuff in the Hacker Canon and reserve HN for, y'know, news.
> Hacker Canon
What's/where's that?
It doesn't exist. But it would contain all the classic works of hackerdom.