Seeing this on the front page makes me ashamed of Hacker News. I would have killed the post hours ago, but I was on a plane.
The alleged quote that the submitter put in the title appears to be completely bogus. Is that so? Googling it [1] brings up nothing but this HN page and a few other web pages from today.
If the quote was just made up, then this post manages not only to be asinine linkbait, but fraudulent as well. You don't put made-up horseshit in quotation marks and attribute it to someone.
Apart from that, what an unredeemably stupid thread. This is a shining (or should I say a steaming) example of what we don't want on Hacker News. That ought to be obvious! If it isn't obvious to you, please pay closer attention, and kindly don't post anything until it is.
You're confusing two things: whether Zuckerberg spoke at Startup School (he did, of course), and whether he said "slow old man" (which someone seems to have just made up). It's bad enough to stir up dumb indignation about something someone said years ago. But to rewrite their words to make them even more offensive? Eesh.
The larger issue, though, is that these discussions are so lame. Young people think they're smarter? You don't say!
It's also lame that we live in a world where interesting people can't speak their minds. (Most thoughts are wrong. Some are interesting anyway.) In a position like that, make one slip and a thousand cackling magpies instantly descend and start pecking at you. How many such experiences before you're trained to dumb down and sanitize everything you say—two? three? After which, of course, people will criticize you instead for spouting vetted corpspeak. Talk about a lose-lose. We're all poorer for it, because it makes discourse much more tedious.
flagged - the title is bullshit anyway and the problem is not so much that somebody fakes linkbaity titles - the problem is that HN audience is apparently interested in it
The alleged quote that the submitter put in the title appears to be completely bogus. Is that so? Googling it [1] brings up nothing but this HN page and a few other web pages from today.
If the quote was just made up, then this post manages not only to be asinine linkbait, but fraudulent as well. You don't put made-up horseshit in quotation marks and attribute it to someone.
Apart from that, what an unredeemably stupid thread. This is a shining (or should I say a steaming) example of what we don't want on Hacker News. That ought to be obvious! If it isn't obvious to you, please pay closer attention, and kindly don't post anything until it is.
Now off to bed without any supper, all of you.
1. https://www.google.com/search?q=zuckerberg+"slow+old+man"