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The relentless cynicism of the Hackernews community is a large part of the fun. There is usually a lot more thought put into the comments here than other cough
by bananaoomarang 11y ago
The relentless cynicism of the Hackernews community is a large part of the fun. There is usually a lot more thought put into the comments here than other cough Reddit cough places on the ol' internets. A lot of the comments which are criticised here for being later proven wrong are valid concerns.
The degree of 'magic' in Meteor, for instance, is something still discussed a lot, despite it's obvious benefits and success.
- mattmanser 11y agoCall me cynical by your example is bad, from experience a lot of us know that excessive magic like meteor is a recipe for great pain later on. (Boom, boom)
- oldmanjay 11y agoThat's pretty definitively cynicism. I don't get the objection.
- toxican 11y ago>There is usually a lot more thought put into the comments here than other cough Reddit cough places on the ol' internets I find this place kind of intimidating and as a result I find myself putting a lot more time/effort into my comments than I do elsewhere. I think that's a good thing.
- galfarragem 11y agoI remember people even being pissed because Meteor raised more money than other projects. Doesn't matter that their marketing strategy and roadmap are near to perfect allowing them to maximize their market share while other (possible) better projects can't. A typical case of confirmation bias.
- dublinben 11y agoIn contrast, I find the unrestrained positivity and uncritical acceptance of new 'products' on a site like ProductHunt quite bizarre.