Paul Graham Facts

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by kf • 19 years ago

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ecuzzillo4• 19 years ago

I'm pretty sure xkcd just jumped the shark. Please don't let YC news jump the shark on the same day.

rms4• 19 years ago

I thought YC News jumped the shark when it stopped being Startup News.

reitzensteinm• 19 years ago

Doesn't mean you have to add to the problem :)

nostrademons• 19 years ago

I don't think xkcd just jumped the shark...I think it's kinda an ironic commentary on Tim Berners-Lee's comment about "stupid and immature" geek culture.

ecuzzillo4• 19 years ago

The last two comics struck me as being there because there needed to be a strip, rather than because they had something to say. I hope I'm wrong, though.

motoko• 19 years ago

I'm voting up only to draw attention to this obnoxious clutter trash in hopes that it will be moderated. You stupid fucking fanboi's...

drm237• 19 years ago

People aren't writing those to suck-up to PG. It's humor...try laughing. Do you honestly think that people write jokes about Chuck Norris because they're Chuck Norris fanboys? It's just for fun...get over it.

davidw• 19 years ago

I don't care for it either, and wouldn't mind if it disappeared, but you lost me with the gratuitous insult. That sort of thing isn't part of the sort of community I want to belong to.

mdemare• 19 years ago

Mmm, design patterns for humor. There are so many of them (lightbulb jokes, snowclones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone), variations on Monty Python sketches, etc). The real challenge is to come up with new patterns, not to use existing ones.

I wonder if it's specifically a geek thing?

tokipin• 19 years ago

LOL. great stuff

run4yourlives2• 19 years ago

Wow, welcome to the redditization of hacker news.

Goladus• 19 years ago

Life is too short to be grumpy.

We've got a long way to go before it gets to daily xkcd threads.

kf2• 19 years ago

Thank you.

pg• 19 years ago

I think users are right to worry. I worry. There's a kind of gravity that seems to pull down news aggregators. It's all too clear what happens; lightweight and/or politically charged stuff is easy to vote up, because it requires little thought.

I'm hoping weighted voting will solve this, but I don't take it for granted.

run4yourlives2• 19 years ago

There's one at #9 right now actually! :-)

Thing is, daily xkcd threads I can handle, daily atheist rants, Ron Paul campaigns and lolcat crap I can't.

alex_c• 19 years ago

Coming up next: LOLPaulGrahamz and ICanHasLisp?

We can only hope not.

emfle• 19 years ago

Yes. Where is the down-arrow when you need it?

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