Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course

Re:Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley... by arthurofbabylon on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:41AM (#16357819)

This getting upvoted and rising toward the top of HN reminds me of Hesse writing about academic/intellectual elites and winning the Nobel prize for it. Magister Ludi wasn’t his best novel, but it was the one that felt most self-gratifying for the voting body.

Humans tend to regard as ‘right’/of-value/impressive that which validates their own perspective, sometimes shamelessly.

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Re:Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley... by stanislavb on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:57AM (#16357878)

You are right, yet, I believe there's a lot of wisdom and value in the comments here. Quite often I tend to read the commends before the articles/posts themselves.

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Re:Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley... by w8w00rd on Monday February 12, 2018 @06:01AM (#16357893)

reminds me of this: http://danluu.com/hn-comments/

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Re:Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley... by tempodox on Monday February 12, 2018 @06:27AM (#16357964)

Which reminds me of the Devil's Dictionary's definition of admiration:

  Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.

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Re:Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley... by finnthehuman on Monday February 12, 2018 @07:02AM (#16358111)

See also "oscar bait"

>Oscar bait films are theatrical, a word which here means “keeps reminding you that you’re [in] the audience.” So don’t be fooled when the panegyrics pour out over a Spielberg flick about a dog that sniffed out its owner’s cancer and then flew to D.C. to campaign for healthcare reform. The actors are side characters, background dancers. The hero is the camera. It’s the one with the character growth, guilt and redemption, it’s the one for whom the score sings. Which means the hero is…

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Re:Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley... by robin_reala on Monday February 12, 2018 @06:10AM (#16357921)

Out of interest (and having only read Siddhartha and The Glass-Bead Game), what would you say was his best novel?

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Re:Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley... by jxub on Monday February 12, 2018 @06:03AM (#16357901)

I think, in a meta sense, that this comment feels also really gratifying to read, there goes my upvote.

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