Guess who's not coming to dinner; Roger Ebert with a terrific analysis of John McCain

Re:Guess who's not coming to dinner; Roger Ebert with a terr... by raganwald on Monday September 29, 2008 @01:06PM (#318528)

Hmmm, reading the HN guidelines I find that I am encouraged to post anything that piques my intellectual curiosity. I ignore almost all articles about US politics (I'm a Canadian), but this one was interesting because of the discussion about body language, and most especially interesting because of the implications of never admitting your political opponent is correct in a negative-style campaign.

That's an interesting aspect of game strategy, which seems to tickle the same part of my brain as many other things I associate with hacking. Well, now you have my explanation as to why I feel posting this complies with the HN guidelines.

Now, help me out: What's your explanation for posting a comment complaining that something isn't hacker news, something specifically discouraged in the guidelines???

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Re:Guess who's not coming to dinner; Roger Ebert with a terr... by gruseom on Monday September 29, 2008 @02:07PM (#318602)

Actually, the two points made by the article (body language and agreeing with opponent) have been gone over hundreds of times in dozens of blogs starting about a minute after the debate. I love Ebert - he's a treasure - but in this case he's saying nothing new, and the post isn't "evidence of [any] interesting new phenomenon".

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Re:Guess who's not coming to dinner; Roger Ebert with a terr... by raganwald on Monday September 29, 2008 @02:17PM (#318610)

Interesting and new to me, I admit that this is my fault for not paying very close attention to US politics. BTW, I would be delighted if we applied that standard to all posts about the iPhone/iPod Touch app store :-)

BTW, I upmodded you for reminding me of a very useful test for submit-worthiness.

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Re:Guess who's not coming to dinner; Roger Ebert with a terr... by convolver on Monday September 29, 2008 @02:46PM (#318643)

Ehh... once again someone going on about "hackernews worthiness" of some article. When it comes to politics, humor, or anything that doesn't scream Tech. from or relating to the media, I would take their remarks with a grain salt.

Most telling is how so often these individuals remain silent when various other more respected members of the hackernews community post similar supposedly off-topic posts as well.

So what if Ebert is saying something that has been spammed over another over a number of other blogs? Do you have any idea how many "successful" and "on-topic" posts fit that bill? Give shoving your ideologies down various posters' throats a rest.

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Re:Guess who's not coming to dinner; Roger Ebert with a terr... by gruseom on Monday September 29, 2008 @04:40PM (#318784)

That's pretty funny, as I have frequently argued for keeping things more diverse on HN. Ad nauseum, I would have said.

I would take their remarks with a grain salt [...] Give shoving your ideologies down various posters' throats a rest.

Is that what you call "a grain salt"? I'm glad you don't go for a pound!

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Re:Guess who's not coming to dinner; Roger Ebert with a terr... by eugenejen on Monday September 29, 2008 @01:54PM (#318586)

Hmm, I guess most developers never read documentations/guidelines, etc. And they continue to type in lines of code until compilers/interpreters spit out error messages....

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Re:Guess who's not coming to dinner; Roger Ebert with a terr... by pius on Monday September 29, 2008 @01:55PM (#318588)

Impressive rebuttal. There's been too much meta-commenting going on lately.

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