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My thought. I didn't discover anything interesting in the commit log.

onion2k 10y ago
There shouldn't be an expectation that every release contains interesting new features. Adding interesting things takes time and effort, so sometimes it's better to just release a collection of small-but-still-important updates. This is the 367th release of Node.js, so how about giving the developers a break.
- Jean-Philipe 10y ago
  You got me all wrong. I think nodejs is in a good place and now is the time for small improvements. I just don't understand why it's on the frontpage of HN.
  - IIIIIIIIIIII 10y ago
    Newspapers - major newspapers, not yellow press - in Germany reported that the British queen had a cold. And you complain about an actual IT subject making it to the frontpage? Democratically (s)elected by the visitors of this site no less.
    - Jean-Philipe 10y ago
      Well, I was not reading a major German newspaper here. Last time checked, this was hacker news. I don't see the connection between the two, but anyhow, let's just go with it for a moment. I actually like your comparison: this post is comparable to major German newspapers reporting that the British queen had a cold. I could not have come up with a better analogy. If you see anything remarkable in the latest nodejs update that makes it worth being on HN - point it out to me please! Maybe I have been missing something.
      - IIIIIIIIIIII 10y ago
        As I said: just don't vote, period. You are not the only reader. The problem of what rises to the front has been solved - by voting. You add noting but completely useless noise, making your complaint quite ironic.
        Jean-Philipe 10y ago
        So, I'm not allowed to ask why this post is interesting? By the way, votes on HN are not equal and not the only mechanism to get on the front page.
        IIIIIIIIIIII 10y ago
        So, I'm not allowed to say that your complaint has already been addressed by the very architecture of this site and that ironically you waste your and everybody else's time much more so than what you complain about?
        Jean-Philipe 10y ago
        My "complaint" was actually trying to find out why people upvoted in the first place. The "why" is not addressed by this architecture. I'm amazed. People in this thread jump in to defend the upvoting of this post and there's not even one single argument on why it is an interesting article to begin with. > So, I'm not allowed to say that ... Okay, uhm, can you point me out where I didn't allow you anything? Since it is so hard for you to understand. So according to your argumentation, Trump got voted and people should not discuss on why that happened, because the voting system is taking care of the "why" part? You are not making any sense.
    - smitherfield 10y ago
      When a 90-year-old person has any illness, even a cold, it could be life-threatening.
      - IIIIIIIIIIII 10y ago
        What does that have to do with the topic??? Do you think newspapers should report illnesses of old people? What a risible response!
        smitherfield 10y ago
        Sure, if the old person is one of the 10 most famous living people.
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  - onion2k 10y ago
    I just don't understand why it's on the frontpage of HN. Right now, 67 people in the world think it's interesting enough to upvote the article. That's 0.00000096% of everyone on Earth. Getting to the front page isn't really a mark of importance. Sometimes a democratic system gets it 'wrong', in the sense that it returns a result you don't agree with.
    - Jean-Philipe 10y ago
      > Right now, 67 people in the world think it's interesting enough to upvote the article. Fair enough. And I'd like to know why they voted for this trivial update. "it got upvoted because it got upvoted" is not an answer. Also, it's not about what I think - HN has guidelines for submissions. I quote[0]: > If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. I fail to see how a trivial update on a programming language would "gratify one's intellectual curiosity". Please educate me. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There shouldn't be an expectation that every release contains interesting new features. Adding interesting things takes time and effort, so sometimes it's better to just release a collection of small-but-still-important updates. This is the 367th release of Node.js, so how about giving the developers a break.

Jean-Philipe 10y ago
You got me all wrong. I think nodejs is in a good place and now is the time for small improvements. I just don't understand why it's on the frontpage of HN.
- IIIIIIIIIIII 10y ago
  Newspapers - major newspapers, not yellow press - in Germany reported that the British queen had a cold. And you complain about an actual IT subject making it to the frontpage? Democratically (s)elected by the visitors of this site no less.
  - Jean-Philipe 10y ago
    Well, I was not reading a major German newspaper here. Last time checked, this was hacker news. I don't see the connection between the two, but anyhow, let's just go with it for a moment. I actually like your comparison: this post is comparable to major German newspapers reporting that the British queen had a cold. I could not have come up with a better analogy. If you see anything remarkable in the latest nodejs update that makes it worth being on HN - point it out to me please! Maybe I have been missing something.
    - IIIIIIIIIIII 10y ago
      As I said: just don't vote, period. You are not the only reader. The problem of what rises to the front has been solved - by voting. You add noting but completely useless noise, making your complaint quite ironic.
      - Jean-Philipe 10y ago
        So, I'm not allowed to ask why this post is interesting? By the way, votes on HN are not equal and not the only mechanism to get on the front page.
        IIIIIIIIIIII 10y ago
        So, I'm not allowed to say that your complaint has already been addressed by the very architecture of this site and that ironically you waste your and everybody else's time much more so than what you complain about?
        Jean-Philipe 10y ago
        My "complaint" was actually trying to find out why people upvoted in the first place. The "why" is not addressed by this architecture. I'm amazed. People in this thread jump in to defend the upvoting of this post and there's not even one single argument on why it is an interesting article to begin with. > So, I'm not allowed to say that ... Okay, uhm, can you point me out where I didn't allow you anything? Since it is so hard for you to understand. So according to your argumentation, Trump got voted and people should not discuss on why that happened, because the voting system is taking care of the "why" part? You are not making any sense.
  - smitherfield 10y ago
    When a 90-year-old person has any illness, even a cold, it could be life-threatening.
    - IIIIIIIIIIII 10y ago
      What does that have to do with the topic??? Do you think newspapers should report illnesses of old people? What a risible response!
      - smitherfield 10y ago
        Sure, if the old person is one of the 10 most famous living people.
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- onion2k 10y ago
  I just don't understand why it's on the frontpage of HN. Right now, 67 people in the world think it's interesting enough to upvote the article. That's 0.00000096% of everyone on Earth. Getting to the front page isn't really a mark of importance. Sometimes a democratic system gets it 'wrong', in the sense that it returns a result you don't agree with.
  - Jean-Philipe 10y ago
    > Right now, 67 people in the world think it's interesting enough to upvote the article. Fair enough. And I'd like to know why they voted for this trivial update. "it got upvoted because it got upvoted" is not an answer. Also, it's not about what I think - HN has guidelines for submissions. I quote[0]: > If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. I fail to see how a trivial update on a programming language would "gratify one's intellectual curiosity". Please educate me. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html