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This has got to stop. Someone posts a link to A and immediately there is a comment - "How is it better than B? How is it different from C?" You know what, bud,
by eps 11y ago
This has got to stop.
Someone posts a link to A and immediately there is a comment - "How is it better than B? How is it different from C?" You know what, bud, if you know about B and C, excellent. Why don't you take a look at A and do everyone a favor and answer your own question. Otherwise it sound like a lazy-ass highbrow dismissal - "Pfft, A? Why bother? There is B, for chrissake, that even the last imbecile here is familiar with."
Please try and make a sliver of effort when commenting on other people's work.
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- pjmlp 11y agoBecause my time is limited and I would like to know why I should spend time evaluating it, instead of using a battle tested library that exists since late 90's and that follows modern C++. If the OP only wants to learn how to do it, or to build its portfolio for a possible job interview, it is fair enough and I don't need to bother with it. If the author wants to do a kick-ass replacement of libsigc++, then it is probably worth my expensive time to look into it.
- shin_lao 11y agoEveryone's time is limited, whether it's useful to you (or not), only you can say. You are basically implying that the time of other people is less valuable than yours when you say "please tell me why I must look at it".
- baq 11y agoi'll respectfully disagree. it's very useful if somebody who has used both (or one but with good understanding of the other) could comment exactly what are the pros and cons of both solutions; to put it differently, why you should use one instead of the other.
- shin_lao 11y agoI 100% agree with you, but that shouldn't prevent you from being considerate, polite and constructive. It's just an opportunity for me to express my extreme dislike for one line dismissive comments just asking "How is this better than X?". If you are truly more interested, you should give more context and information. That's how I try to do it when I face similar interrogations.
- pferde 11y agoPerhaps stop reading every post with default expectation of negativity. To me, the OP read like a honest, curious question.
- pjmlp 11y agoDo you check all the libraries and programming languages yourself, or do you rely on the opinion of others via blogs, books, magazine articles, comments in forums like HN?
- detaro 11y agoRead it as "In case you have already compared A to B, I'd like to know what you observed", and suddenly there is way less to be upset about.
- new_hackers 11y agoHow is this better than 'How is this better than'? :-) (joking, you are on the right track here, 100% agree)
- eps 11y agoRegardless of why you said it, you could've worded in a more civil way. Compare - How is this better than Xyz? to How does this compare to Xyz? It's one character longer, but it doesn't automatically imply that the original submission is a crap not worthy even a shortest glimpse. Unless of course the purpose of your comment was indeed to show that you are the royalty of the programming world whose time is very expensive.
- pjmlp 11y agoAre you native English speaker? I am not.
- analognoise 11y agoI love asking that question, because usually somebody chimes in with deep understanding of the relevant domain that I don't have and can't get unless I'm using it daily. For example, recently someone linked to Dolphin smalltalk, and I asked how it was different than Pharo - I'm not an expert in either, and the answer was greatly illuminating. Also, this kind of question usually leads to me looking at other items related to the thing posted that I was unaware of. I don't think it's a bad question at all. Hell, sometimes the author comes in to explain it!