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And what does your own condescending remarks add exactly? This was the page that was linked and frankly it wasn't good enough for HN nor did it reflect particul

by gozo 11y ago

And what does your own condescending remarks add exactly? This was the page that was linked and frankly it wasn't good enough for HN nor did it reflect particularly good on front-end developers. Maybe something you yourself should think about when posting comments with a claimed employer in your profile.

underwater 11y ago
I may have been a little condescending in my response, but I stand behind my point. You listed a bunch of surface level complaints about the structure of the text which had little to do with the content. They weren't constructive at all. And it's worth pointing out that though HN doesn't have many guidelines, complaining about downvotes and that a submission isn't appropriate are two of the things that they ask people not to do (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
- gozo 11y ago
  At least my comments add something to the discussion, yours is just meta complaints that helps no one. My comment was constructive, I even offered suggestion how to rewrite things to make it better. It wasn't more surface level then any other comment and I did "complain" about the content if you read the last two lines. My main complaint wasn't about the structure at all, it was about signal to noise level and not providing value. The part about accessibility is a perfect example, it has structure but says nothing to someone who doesn't already know what it is. I wonder is this how you treat code at Facebook? You let glaring faults just sit because criticism are seen as complaining? Just because it's text and not code doesn't make it less important. In fact is often more important since the value is in the text itself, while code can be "good enough" if it produces the right output. You have now made two comment, but still haven't actually disagreed with content of my comment. It's comments like yours that ruin HN by making it into lowest common denominator meta discussions where everyone just states opinions without having to present any form of argument. Since you are so concerned about my time I can inform you that I was going to write another comment about something that I had researched which five other people were cluelessly speculating about, but now I wrote this one instead.

by gozo 11y ago

underwater 11y ago

I may have been a little condescending in my response, but I stand behind my point. You listed a bunch of surface level complaints about the structure of the text which had little to do with the content. They weren't constructive at all. And it's worth pointing out that though HN doesn't have many guidelines, complaining about downvotes and that a submission isn't appropriate are two of the things that they ask people not to do (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

gozo 11y ago
At least my comments add something to the discussion, yours is just meta complaints that helps no one. My comment was constructive, I even offered suggestion how to rewrite things to make it better. It wasn't more surface level then any other comment and I did "complain" about the content if you read the last two lines. My main complaint wasn't about the structure at all, it was about signal to noise level and not providing value. The part about accessibility is a perfect example, it has structure but says nothing to someone who doesn't already know what it is. I wonder is this how you treat code at Facebook? You let glaring faults just sit because criticism are seen as complaining? Just because it's text and not code doesn't make it less important. In fact is often more important since the value is in the text itself, while code can be "good enough" if it produces the right output. You have now made two comment, but still haven't actually disagreed with content of my comment. It's comments like yours that ruin HN by making it into lowest common denominator meta discussions where everyone just states opinions without having to present any form of argument. Since you are so concerned about my time I can inform you that I was going to write another comment about something that I had researched which five other people were cluelessly speculating about, but now I wrote this one instead.