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I really hate this kind of article. Good writing has a summary of the most important stuff at the top and then drills down into various interesting aspects. Tha
by dukoid 10y ago
I really hate this kind of article. Good writing has a summary of the most important stuff at the top and then drills down into various interesting aspects. Thanks for the TL/DR, I had given up after the first paragraph.
- zellyn 10y agoCertain kinds of good writing do. Many kinds do not.
- HillaryBriss 10y agoI think you may be describing the difference between newspaper-style journalism on the one hand and magazine-style journalism on the other. That said, I pretty much agree with you. I've lost my patience for magazine-style journalism.
- antongm 10y agoIt's safe to say the target audience of this piece was not the Hacker News demographic. More product dev detail would have lost most people. Unfortunately.