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Speaking of serious comments:

It used to be possible to have a submission related to Apple on Hacker News wherein the top comment was something other than shitting on John Gruber.

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I don't even know who John Gruber is.

I bet you'd recognize his website if you saw it though

This is distressingly true, I recognised Daring Fireball and its layout, and the general slant of the articles long before I could recognise the name John Gruber.

I'm sure there's some poignant comment to be made based on this, about how some people consume content online.

I believe he was the villain in Die Hard. The actor was the same guy who played Dumbledore in Twilight.

It also used to be possible to have a submission related to Apple on HN wherein the top comment was something other than Gruber-style fanboyism. So it all balances out in the end.

Seems ironic for you to make this statement when the top voted comment on this, a story Gruber is not mentioned in, is a jab at Gruber.

One might get the impression that "Gruber-style fanboyism" actually means "anything that is not critical of Apple".

If you got that impression, you'd be wrong. I classify Gruberism as that commentary which cannot and must not admit criticism of Apple.

Now, that doesn’t really happen, does it?

I agree in part, but in this case I also believe, as ender7 puts it, that "it's impossible to post a serious comment to a case that is already absurd". The comment was funny, but I wouldn't have upvoted it without this last remark.

Yet, against all odds, many people have found a way to make serious comments about the case.

It will possible again once John Gruber's shitty blog stops shitting up the front page.

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