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0 pointsDylan168074y ago0 comments

If you ask some friends to order the following statements in terms of usefulness:

A: X company is shutting down development on their web software product.

B: X company is shutting down development on something.

C: X company is shutting down development on their web software product, which is used for collaborating on software development.

Then I bet that if your friends find any difference at all, they will rank C better than A better than B.

The headline alone tells us B, and the headline plus the LAMP comment tells us A.

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dmitriid4y ago

Compare the useless comment you're so eagerly defending with other examples of useless comments to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27348692

Dylan16807OP4y ago

I'm well aware that it would have been possible and even easy to make a much better description.

But the world isn't divided into good and useless. Narrowing it from any product in the world down to web app is about a 3 stars out of 10 description. It's a bad score but it's not 1 star.

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