To paraphrase Rob Pike, if you want Slashdot, you know where to find it.

I agree.

While it's amusing, it's not the type of content I expect to see at the top of the list at this site.

Has the reddit/digg over-popularity effect kicked in here, too?

Maybe we need the ability to down-vote submissions.

I, for one, welcome our new geek humor overlords.

This might be a practical joke. Not an especially good one, but it's so over the top that I have a sneaking suspicion someone is having a laugh about all the indignity this post has generated.

Haha, this is great. I got sucked in and read the whole thing, the best post was on page 13...

"HERE IS THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION. RUN THESE SIMPLE SQL STATEMENTS, AND ALL WILL BE OK: SQL truncate table OUTFITTER; SQL truncate table ORDER_DETAILS; SQL truncate table STYLE_COLLS; Then run the query again and post the results."

hilarious.

I wonder if it's not an outsourced Oracle employee who is not even aware of what company he works for.

Its definitely a prank. Anyway he is now on Tom Kytes' blog. http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-not-to-ask-question.html

Another internet legend is born.

Jesus.

No, Jesus wouldn't be so cruel :P

I'm guessing juwo downmodded us?

just for laughs :)

Wow, downvoted again. I guess nobody found this link funny.

In the future I'll try to stick to articles about Paul Graham ;)