Does the "TL;DR" sentiment really belong at HN at all? I'd like to think this co...

marilyn · on Oct 15, 2010

I always appreciate the efforts of HN'ers who post a TL;DR summary. It's less about taking the easy way out, and more about saving time.

raganwald · on Oct 15, 2010

In that case, why is tertius asking for a summary? If a summary is a good idea, the keyboard can be found between tertius' chair and screen ;-)

Detrus · on Oct 15, 2010

we just need an automated way to extract that information so it doesn't clutter the comments.

dctoedt · on Oct 15, 2010

> we just need an automated way to extract that information

Figure out that one and the world will beat a path to your door ....

BTW, timing is everything, I guess - this was posted by justinweiss a couple of weeks ago as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1733702 (thank you Better HN extension for Google Chrome at http://goo.gl/PcMz).