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by groby_b 4885 days ago
And of course the HN boys club doesn't see anything wrong with the headline. I expected nothing less :(

Seriously, people: "No means yes" is a clear reference to "No means no". It's a really bad choice of headline, because it communicates "I don't care about issues that women are facing, if it gets me a catchy headline".
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danso 4885 days ago
I'd be inclined to be ambivalent on this, except that in the OP there is no literal "yes" or "no" involved (i.e., something like, "I set the MONGO_UNSAFE_DATA_COMMIT flag to 'No'") so I'm not even sure what the headline means, except that it gets a little edge parodying the anti-rape saying.

At least you can't blame the OP for thinking too much about SEO.

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