Xkcd - TED Talk

[arthurk]

http://xkcd.com/541/

[my]

I'm not even joking when I say that I have this dilemma daily.

[noonespecial → my]

I usually use alternative parentheses.

This is a statement <its kind of goofy :)>

Or if I'm feeling particularly geeky and the audience will appreciate...

This is a statement qq{its kind of goofy :)};

[jyothi → noonespecial]

I feel square brackets look better. Also they are not used in emoticons as much as angle brackets and flower brackets.

This is a statement [ its kind of goofy :) ]

and to continue your syntactic way...

     This is a statement /* its kind of goofy :) */

[andygeers]

Yeah, I was hoping for some serious discussion of the central issue - how do you end such a parenthetical statement with an emoticon?

[cperciva]

Do we really need to have every single xkcd comic submitted here? I'm sure we're all aware of xkcd by now.

[kf → cperciva]

Do we really need to have someone complain about xkcd being submitted every time it is submitted? If you think it is that bad, flag it, don't complain in the thread.

[jyothi → cperciva]

Guess it does happens with a lot of articles, but the good thing is only the good ones float up - all of PG, joelonsoftware, mattmaroon, techcrunch, avc posts etc. These are things we would anyway checkout if HN did not exist.

I would actually be happy to be assured that all posts from these sites get submitted, hence getting a chance to get upvoted.