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446 points tonmoy | 4 comments | | HN request time: 0.346s | source
1. spansoa ◴[] No.37252121[source]
Also Nerd Sniping[0] should be avoided, although that slips through the cracks here on HN. A form of Cunningham's Law[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd_sniping

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

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2. em-bee ◴[] No.37252599[source]
hackernews as a whole is one giant barrage of nerdsnipes.

at least i come here for the discussion of interesting problems. sure sometimes i wonder, like, should i really have spent the time to comment on wobbly walls in britain? was that question i posed a nerdsnipe? maybe, but then so was the whole article.

3. Tao3300 ◴[] No.37252905[source]
It's not nerd-sniping. It's nerd-shooting nerd-fish in a nerd-barrel.
4. callalex ◴[] No.37254653[source]
This is an interesting take as I am on this website precisely to be nerd-sniped and I don’t really feel alone in that aspect.