Thanks for explaining. I read the GP and thought "this person's way too serious".. but with the context I see the GP is actually a subtle treasure.
I'm amazed that you remembered that.
It might be the most famous Hacker News comment in existence.
Up there with slashdot's impression of the first iPods:
> No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
(https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...)
The first iPods were pretty crappy from a functional standpoint. There were other mp3 players which were more full-featured, and the early iPods crashed a lot.
It's their aesthetic design which sold people on them. That's what Slashdot did not understand.
I actually preferred MiniDisc through the portable music player era. I didn’t stop using my MiniDisc player until iPhone 4, as my phone storage was suddenly sufficient to carry a good portion of my library.
either that or the Putnam comment of cperciva's. [0]
Jeez, that guy was full of himself though. Looks like 14 years later he isn't the roaring startup success story he predicted.
How do you know that? Success can be measured in many ways, many of them not public.
You think he has a secret successful startup? Lol
I've looked through some of those comments, and I don't understand what is going on. Can you help, please?
Someone was trying to knock cperciva down a peg or two as he was boasting about something higher up in the thread. The comment being something to the effect of, “have you won a Putnam? If not, stop talking.” The Putnam is an undergraduate mathematics competition. It’s prestigious to win.
Colin was a Putnam fellow (top 5 scorers) in 1999.
All in all, it was a pretty funny exchange at the time and quickly stopped the argument. Don’t assume that the person you’re talking with here is an idiot. It really demonstrates how HN users are varied with significant expertise in many areas.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathem...
News to me. TIL.
Re:Outhorse Your Email
by quickthrower2 on Thursday May 19, 2022 @07:41AM
(#31433212)
Thanks! My Poe’s Law-ometer was as
a entangled as that famous cat
for a moment.
For those who don’t understand the reference this is satire coming from the comment on the Dropbox Launch post on HN in 2007 [0]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224