Open the article, press Ctrl-F, and type "DOGE" to get your answer.
(TL;DR: DOGE is the name of a new US government agency devoted to gutting other government agencies, and the founder of Gumroad is giving it pro-bono help.)
Ah yes. For the last two or three weeks, or maybe ditto months, in some of my free time, that I dedicate for reading world news, I've been doing practically nothing but reading about the shenanigans of the Frump and his sidekick the Tusk / the Fsck, so I guess it makes sense that I didn't know what the DOGE was. end of /s
:)
after the /s, thanks for your answer. the /s is dedicated to the HN people I mention below, not to you.
actually by the "doge thing", I meant sahil's interaction with it, which I knew would be in the article, or in a linked one, but was a bit lazy to read.
and I continue to marvel at the brilliance of the knee jerk, trigger happy HN downvoters who can't even imagine that there can be a different interpretation of a phrase like "the doge thing" from what they can think of or know.
>you posted a 5 word question that was maddeningly vague
"maddeningly vague", hell yes, but only for 'hotshot' HN dumbasses (of which there are many here) who don't look before they leap, aka, in this case, don't read (the comment context) before they yap.
proof: here is the comment to which I was replying above, when I asked "what is the doge thing":
>So what are the alternatives to gumroad? I’d been thinking of using them to sell the PDF version of a book, but after reading about the doge thing, I feel like I need to look elsewhere.
See the overall comment, as well as the part I highlighted.
from the context, as shown above, it is clear (to anyone with common sense) that I was asking what they meant by their reference to doge, in the context of gumroad, and was not asking about doge itself, which I could, obviously, have easily googled for.
so, is it now clear to you, dear sir, andybak, that my question was not vague at all, and in fact, it was your comment that was maddeningly idiotic and unjustified? even more idiotic in view of the fact that Frump, Tusk, and their shenanigans like doge and tariffs have been making news headlines all around the world for the past few weeks? in view of that, isn't it likely that I would know what doge meant?
jfc.
in future, look before you leap, or you're likely to land up in a pile of dog(e) shit (of your own making).
(TL;DR: DOGE is the name of a new US government agency devoted to gutting other government agencies, and the founder of Gumroad is giving it pro-bono help.)