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1:28 · 2.4M views · Aug 7, 2011
The Canyonero song from The Simpsons episode The Last Temptation of Krust, a jingle parodying oversized SUV marketing.
HN invokes it as a joke whenever large SUVs, trucks or the Cybertruck come up.
10 comments from Hacker News
As far as I know, actual features are mostly mentioned as points of differentiation from other SUVs. The overall marketing slant has primarily been emotionally-driven stuff about being bigger, tougher, more independent/adventurous, etc. than people who drive conventional passenger cars (e.g. notice the general shift in tone and emphasis in the compilation at [1]). It was a big enough trend that The Simpsons lampooned it in 1998, complete with a jingle sung by Hank Williams Jr. [2]. [1] [LINK] [2] this video
I think there's two kinds of bad software The first kind was written by people who know about software, has some attempt at following some conventions, variable names, etc. etc. It's not "clean and shiny", but you can see someone tried . Like if a bunch of first year apprentices built a house. They tried their best, and often did a half reasonable job - at least for a first timer. Plenty of companies are using this kind of software to make many of millions of dollars. I would say this is extremely common in the real world. And then there's codebases that consist of a single source file that has hundreds of thousands of LOC and that file is called indexNEW.php, indexNEWNEW.php index2022-1.php (and so on). Nobody who works on it has ever studied any kind of software course at any kind of school, and literally nobody has any real understanding of what/why/how, because it gets passed along like a hot potato everytime someone quits due to the insanity. Nobody who works on it even knows what source control is, has no idea why you shouldn't copy and paste code, and has never heard of TDD or automated testing or bullding or literally any software discipline. This isn't like first year apprentices building a house, this is like Homer building the Canyonero - an utter disgrace that just barely functions at all. [1] I wouldn't be surprized if Joel is talking about type one, and doesn't even really consider type two to be "software" or "a system". It's just a stinking pile of garbage. (I
If you fly, you should be required to pay to offset using direct air capture at whatever the current market price is. I pay the fully loaded cost of all CO2 emissions my family is responsible for. The argument isn't "don't do this", the argument is "either avoid emissions or pay for them." Are you comparing the light vehicle emissions of the low and middle class to discretionary pickup truck purchases, priced between $50k and $80k? If you want to drive such a vehicle, and it is a combustion version, as long as whatever mechanism is dispensing the fuel ensures you're paying for that CO2 to be sequestered back underground in a stable form, by all means, Canyonero! But that is not what is on offer at scale. this video
Nothing makes me feel safe like my Canyonero. "Can you name the truck with four wheel drive, Smells like a steak and seats thirty five? Canyonero! Canyonero! Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down, It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown, Canyonero! Canyonero!" "12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride! Canyonero! Canyonero! Top of the line in utility sports, Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts! Canyonero! Canyonero! She blinds everybody with her super high beams, She's a squirrel-squashin', deer smackin' drivin' machine, Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero! Whoa, Canyonero! Whoooooaaaa!" 0: this video
I can't help but to feel schadenfreude. It's what you get with what looks like a "meme-first" approach to product design. Also, am I the only one who keeps thinking of the Simpson's Canyonero when reading cybertruck news? this video