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Gin and Tacos
Personal blog · ginandtacos.compoliticsculture
Gin and Tacos is a personal blog at ginandtacos.com about politics and culture. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on everyday user interfaces and how people learn to follow directions, and for a 2014 post about whether a van is a car. Comments here only cite the posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Opiate of the Asses
What Hacker News says?
Ed said it[1] better than I could, so I'll quote him: This is a long way of saying to the people who support Trump (and therefore would never read this) that "Let's agree to disagree and keep being friends" is a poor strategy this year. However you've managed to rationalize it in your head, supporting someone so openly and enthusiastically racist, xenophobic, and flat-out mean says a lot about you. We are long, long…
Comment linking /2016/10/17/the-difference-between-you-and-me/
on “Shame on Y Combinator”Submitted The 18-year-old who landed a Cessna in Soviet-era Moscow's Red Square as a story · 128 points
HN discussionRelevant, I think: http://www.ginandtacos.com/2012/09/24/tab-a-slot-b In it, the author speculates that one of the reasons that kids have such a hard time following directions is that they never learn to read them, because nothing comes with directions anymore (you just "figure it out"). It's sort of the dark side of ubiquitous discoverable UI.
Comment linking /2012/09/24/tab-a-slot-b
on “WTFM - Write The Freaking Manual”Submitted Cheating and the Honor System as a story · 93 points
HN discussionYup, that's what I was coming over here to post about too—this is not a "novel approach" as the article alleges. http://www.ginandtacos.com/2014/04/04/npf-beat-on-the-brat/ (has pictures!)
Comment linking /2014/04/04/npf-beat-on-the-brat/
on “When's a van a van and when's it a car?”Submitted Network Solutions shuts down domain, claims missing fax number as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forgotten as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dangerous Pierogi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rabbit Hole as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stratosphere as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding Consequences as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Difference Between You and Me as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The worst thing about Silicon Valley techno-libertarianism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Issue Attention Cycles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Following Instructions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quit Lit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Independence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ask Not for Whom the Bot Toils as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There's No Trick; It's Just a Simple Trick as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Loud, Racist, and Signifying Nothing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Churlish as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lovely Men with Ugly Names as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not Required as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lengthy as a story · 1 points
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