That's great, I found it amusing too, but I'd rather keep the tone at an adult level here rather than dipping into the, admittedly sometimes more amusing, levels of reddit and 4chan.

I agree with you, but I think part of what made it funny was that it was so unexpected.

OT: Also, thanks to the rest of HN for modding me down. I've got hundreds of karma points to burn, so do your worst. I'll cry at first because nothing means more to me than my HN karma, but then go have nasty sex with my hot girlfriend to make myself feel better.

Wow. Written like somebody who has never actually been poor. How disgusting

Diaspora's curse: They don't actually have a working product to show off -- or any product at all. This whole farce has been amazing. I can't believe anyone actually thinks they're going to produce -anything- that can actually be run or used.

as a guy who gets paid to write this shit for 8 hours a day -- Yes, and yes.

You spend 8 hours a day just writing HTML? That sounds horrible.

yes it is. now it is just a little bit less horrible thanks to this.

"If you’re one of those hipster programmers who loves Clojure, Ruby, Scala, Erlang, or whatever, you probably deeply loathe Java and all of its giant configuration files and bloated APIs of AbstractFactoryFactoryInterfaces."

Can we just get a moratorium on usage of "hipster" now? Everybody's using it wrong.

I love this. Absolutely love it. I've always kind of dismissed comments as mostly empty white noise on the internet, and have never figured out why so many CMS systems/Blogging software/Web apps/etc are so eager to add comments to EVERYTHING.

Give me the content, I can form my own thoughts on it, and if I actually feel like my thoughts are worthwhile for reading I can publish them myself.

You just added a comment to a story.

How is your comment on HN not exactly what you're dismissive of?

YES I REALIZE THE IRONY HERE

I will admit HN is one of those rare sites with a pretty good signal to noise ratio in comments.

There is no irony here. This is a discussion forum. If I check out a book from the library, I don't want to see comments scribbled in the margins, but I'm more than happy to join a lively discussion about it on HN or reddit.

Wow! That's six whole displays I can't do anything useful on!

I was kind of surprised that something so trivial required JQuery or Prototype. Really now?

even an experienced mechanic will tell you that you can never have too much reference material

knowing how a vehicle mechanically works is one thing, figuring out how a certain manufacturer implemented those mechanical principles is totally another

Boring? God I hope so. Classic MacOS had the right idea aesthetics-wise. Boring, clean, neutral grays. I'm paying attention to the applications, not the OS windows.

Class is not the same as boring and the iPhone doesn’t use flashy colors anywhere (except where flashy colors are appropriate: to help distinguish between different apps, for the low battery warning, the reminder badge, the slider to turn it off, you get the idea). Nobody in their right mind would call the iPhone’s UI boring. Never mind the subdued dull blue and grey.

OS X was candy colored. A decade ago. The iPhone lost the candy, Mac OS X has some vestigial buttons and scrollbars but is otherwise very much moving towards battleship grey. But its past, present and future aren’t exactly boring.