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by emin_gun_sirer 4830 days ago
Do you know which president I had in mind? I lived through quite a few 8 year terms, and yes, that includes Reagan.

If your response is "but everyone knows which president you were referring to," then surely it's fair game to refer to whoever that is since the facts are universally accepted? :-)
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richardjordan 4830 days ago
The comment thread is only just getting started and there are already two comments about why they didn't bother reading. The TL;DR generation has another skill - finding ways to rationalize why they didn't tax their brains with the effort of reading. Mostly they're of the format "I read x in the first few lines so it disqualified the rest of the article from further attention".

I think there's a new qualification for TL;DR - DFIAT - didn't fit in a tweet.

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swartzrock 4830 days ago
Dang, I been tricked! Seriously, though, it's not in our nature to take counsel from folks who act disrespectfully. The quip about a non-reading president and "brogrammers" fits that.
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