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For the first, the occasional postmortem isn't that useful. I hoped to know when things go away as easily as I can find out when they're coming out. There's a m
by patmcguire 10y ago
For the first, the occasional postmortem isn't that useful. I hoped to know when things go away as easily as I can find out when they're coming out. There's a massive push on creation that takes care of the first one, but after only occasional breathless praise slowly turning into dead silence for almost everyone. Maybe 1/100 writes a postmortem and that goes too deep too narrowly. Or they are silently successful. "Gets to front page of HN" is not a great filter.
Second would have to be "Who's Looking" or something, I guess it's done the other way around so candidates don't get hammered with 10k recruiter emails.
There haven't been great responses on this Ask HN, and looking back on the previous one it was also worse than I remembered. I've accepted that this isn't going to work out in practice.
- pvg 10y ago"Who's looking" variants already exist. The postmortem thing, I suppose if you want more of them you're probably better off finding some like-minded people and setting up a forum of some sort - fb page, twitter tag, subreddit, whatever. That way you don't have to rely on the broader topic range and limited frontpage space of HN.