[meta] 4chan technology board satires hacker news, hilarious

http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/48696148

by azeirah • 11 years ago

54 12 11 years ago

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briandear2• 11 years ago

I think they nailed it..

<<<[420 points] Show HN: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it >> Anonymous 06/26/15(Fri)22:42:37 No.48696192▶ This is a perfect example of the sort of immature, { misogynistic, racist } attitudes that permeate tech!

(followed soon after by)

What this actually shows is why more complex factors are at work in explaining why { women, blacks } choose other fields of specialty.>>>

plausibility• 11 years ago

Some of these are, I think, quite spot on. > [825] How we plan to burst the bubble with our niche startup!

pierrec• 11 years ago

The amount of hate in this thread is unbelievable. Why do people nitpick on the author's background, when there are many interesting aspects of the technology to be discussed? OTOH, I don't want to take away from the coolness factor here, and I hate to be that guy, but theses resources ought to be put to better use. People forget that developers aren't fungible resources, and it's just sad to see the problem being swept under the rug like this.

Which brings me to the question : why is this even on the front page? It's not even remotely news. It's a linkbaity title that leads to a paywalled, ad-ridden, overloaded page. The scrolling is broken and the font is illegible on my screen. It requires javascript and the irony is that it's not even HTTPS.

The article has been posted innumerable times before [0] [1] [2], and the shady author makes a series of misleading, biased, unverified claims. Literally every logical fallacy is on display here, and it doesn't provide any references.

EDIT: This new title is even worse. Mods, what's up with the ridiculous title edits lately?

EDIT: Why all the downvotes? I'm trying to provide constructive criticism here, but I guess this place isn't the bastion of civilized discussion that it used to be.

hga• 11 years ago

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trolling

krapp2• 11 years ago

sage

sova• 11 years ago

sage goes in every field

hookey• 11 years ago

Archive link in case someone is reading this in the future: https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S48696148

Also, there have been a bunch of threads like these. I believe this was the first one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373

minimaxir2• 11 years ago

And not much has changed since then, unfortunately.

briandear2• 11 years ago

It's interesting how this post hasn't made the HN front page despite having higher points than many of the other stories.

minimaxir2• 11 years ago

This most likely got flagged due to the 4chan mention in the title.

azeirah• 11 years ago

Yeah, it was at the second page when it disappeared.

krapp2• 11 years ago

Heaven forbid we not take this internet forum seriously all the time...

[meta] 4chan technology board satires hacker news, hilarious

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