Just last week Terry Jones' obituary received hundreds of upvotes here and in many other places.
I guess users are flagging Kobe but not Terry Jones because they like Jones more. But this is explicitly what flagging is not supposed to be about.
I guess users are flagging Kobe but not Terry Jones because they like Jones more. But this is explicitly what flagging is not supposed to be about.
I would call that sufficiently on-topic, personally.
I love Monty Python but it’s disingenuous to claim they they’re any more “on topic” than a basketball player (and I say this as someone who’s not generally a sports fan).
The only real difference between the two is one is more popular on HN than the other. Which is a real shitty reason to flag an obituary in my opinion.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker-humor.html
And I'm fairly certain this predates esr's tenure (I used to own a copy of The Great Quux's hardcover).
We're just going to have to agree to disagree here.
That just reinforces that things were named after Monty Python rather than Monty Python creating the tech!
> We're just going to have to agree to disagree here.
You haven’t actually disagreed with my point though.