snark

There are plenty of places on the internet for trading snark, this isn't intended to be one of them.

Generally, though, and without intending snark: If you're discussing MTE v ETM, and Bruce Schneier comes up, the answer is ETM.

You may want to appeal to hn@ycombinator.com, your comment wasn't egregious IMO, but the snark made it look trollish.

Your snark is well-taken, but at least pick a city that's actually doing shitty...

Autogenerated content, for example, will never be able to replicate the snark of TechCrunch or the gossipy tone of Valleywag very effectively.

Please don't interpret this as snark or sarcasm, I'm just looking for a use case -- when is this useful?

The snark and heavy handed moderation helps keeping content useful and correct.

The fact you received a few downvotes for it implies that there were others who took it more as a snark than a joke.

Edit: To the downvoters: This is a serious question, not snark.

Given your username, I'm going to go ahead and assume (hope?) this is ill-conceived snark.

Is that a common piece of snark in the community?

My original comment was mostly meant as snark, but I've had an interviewer take photos during a whiteboard exercise for this reason.

Whenever people see snark about Java installing the "Ask.com Toolbar", it is referring to the client-side JRE installer (i.e.

The snark doesn't "drive the point home"; it calls attention to itself, obscuring your point.

When I clicked this link, I was thinking, "Snark, that's exactly what I need some more of."

I sometimes wonder if the people who write things like "Real World" and "snark" actually talk like that.

Snark aside, there are many benefits most who have jobs in this range qualify for which does push their net higher.