Re:Pokemon Sword and Shield Are Crashing Roku Devices
by saagarjha on Monday November 18, 2019 @08:57PM
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/r/ProgrammerHumor occasionally used to have good technical inside behind the jokes; I used to enjoy reading them and writing my own. Sadly I've stopped visiting because the subreddit's been overrun by "JavaScript bad" and bad volume controls (which isn't even programmer humor?)
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Re:Pokemon Sword and Shield Are Crashing Roku Devices
by pvg on Monday November 18, 2019 @10:22PM
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I mean, I'm sure /r/ProgrammerHumor has had real knee-slappers of great technical sophistication. This, obviously, is not one of them. Still, it's not that unusual for a joke to be mistaken for a real thing, reported in the media and then further repeated by others - as has happened here. It boggles my mind, though, that instead of having a friendly chuckle at this perfectly human mistake, we have it as a top comment on a thread - complete with subthread where 'shenanigans' are being called, it's subject to some earnest (albeit quite iffy) speculative analysis and, most astoundingly, a claim is made (by the shenanigans-caller) that even though it's plainly a joke posted on what is plainly a joke forum, it might contain a true description of the bug.
The only thing we're missing are some back-of-the-envelope estimates of whether Roku really saved $250k on CDN fees and whether Roku devices are, in fact, used in commercial settings.
It's one of the weirdassest things I've seen on HN (a forum, it is worth recalling, on which the intellectual rigour the discipline of programming instills in its practitioners is frequently extolled) and I've been here a while.