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You need to practice translating your hard-earned knowledge into smartass form. It's a winning combination.



And if you look at /bestcomments this appears to be the case.


Ah. I didn't know about /bestcomments.

I bow to the master.

I had also forgotten that edw519 was the author of one of the most sagacious smartass comments in software history.


Thank you, fish, I think.

May I use your comment quote in the promotional material for my next startup, SagaciousSmartassCommentGenerator.com?

Input: Whatever you want to say.

Output: Greatly compressed text (using our proprietary smartass algorithm) guaranteed to generate karma in even the harshest environments (Reddit, Digg, Slashdot)

My email blasts will probably have subject lines like, "Karma Enlargement: 12 Points Guaranteed"


> SagaciousSmartassCommentGenerator.com?

Sorry, Network Solutions already took that domain...


21 points needed to enter the list. Should be doable.


Ah, the Torvalds protocol.




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