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YANPLUSUM - Yet Another New Programming Language Undergoes Some Unimportant Milestone.

moron4hire 9y ago
Hey dude, this is someone's project. Think about what it would be like if you posted a project here and someone else called it "yet another unimportant thing".
- Safety1stClyde 9y ago
  Whatever importance "v0.17.0" might have to the authors, it means no more to me than any other random string of digits. Regardless of the content, the title of this submission is ridiculously poor.
  - Nomentatus 9y ago
    Yeah, let's Trumpify that title: "JUUUGE NIM release - everybody is saying they're going to give up sex now, 'cause we're like 17 times better now! NIM version 17,000.17 is OUT and PROUD!" Accuracy and brevity, pshaaw.
    - sctb 9y ago
      Please do not post like this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      - Nomentatus 9y ago
        I don't see any mention in the links that humor is to be strictly avoided. Did I miss something? I'm amused that the party I'm replying to actually insists on a more click-baity title; but chose to use humor to express that. I certainly won't again, and may not comment here again.
  - shakna 9y ago
    Click the link, you'll see the changelog.
    - Safety1stClyde 9y ago
      I'm trying to contain my excitement.
  - wjh_ 9y ago
    When this happens with most other posts, most people tend to not read them, not comment on them, and most definitely not shit all over them. Enough people have been interested in it for it to be voted high enough for you to see it.
  - moron4hire 9y ago
    Why do you think this is an appropriate attitude? What happened to you that you are like this?
    - sctb 9y ago
      Please don't get personal like this, no matter what someone has said.
      - moron4hire 9y ago
        Trolls need personal responses. This aversion to conflict is why we have a shit internet. I am asking the person to introspect to maybe answer for themselves why they are so awful.
        sctb 9y ago
        I thought “Don't feed the trolls” was the idea?
veidr 9y ago
To paraphrase Steve Jobs: "Oh yeah? What the fuck have you done that's so awesome that you now feel like you can just make some snide, zero-value comment to shit on a new release of one of the more interesting new programming languages of the past few years, Clyde?" This kind of news, and discussion of it, is exactly what this website is for.
- sbuttgereit 9y ago
  This. Though I'm woefully under-skilled to offer much comment on these sorts of stories, it is exactly this sort of story and the comments of much smarter people than me that attract me to read HN. Really, I wish it were more of this sort of thing and less politics and other non-tech miscellanea.
  - Safety1stClyde 9y ago
    Yeah, it's hard to contain one's excitement when one hears that version 0.17.0 of a project has just been released.
sctb 9y ago
Can you please just not comment when this is all you have to say? Comments on HN should be civil and substantive.
- Safety1stClyde 9y ago
  This post about yet another "new programming language" reaching a milestone consisting of random digits was upvoted so that it reached the front page of your web site, and my pointing that out resulted in my not only being downvoted but revenge-downvoted across several other posts. If you wish to improve your web site's content, a more valuable service toward that end would be to excise the spammers promoting the above nonsense content, and revenge-downvoting across answers, rather than criticising me for pointing out that this emperor is not wearing any clothes.
  - sctb 9y ago
    We do penalize minor release articles, and there are software protections against abusive downvoting. What we need from you is no more comments like these. It's not criticism, they simply break the guidelines.
    - Safety1stClyde 9y ago
      The spamming of this site by these kinds of projects has gone far enough that it has now been parodied in a television series: https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/6cy0x3/the_guys_conspiring_in_reddit_vote_rigging/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/6cy0x3/th... Quote on the whiteboard by the character "Gilfoyle" in "Silicon Valley": HACKER NEWS!!! Get friends to upvote One would have to be extremely naive to think that anyone except friends of the authors would upvote a link to a changelog for version 0.17.0 of a "new programming language" on this site.

Hey dude, this is someone's project. Think about what it would be like if you posted a project here and someone else called it "yet another unimportant thing".

Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Whatever importance "v0.17.0" might have to the authors, it means no more to me than any other random string of digits. Regardless of the content, the title of this submission is ridiculously poor.
- Nomentatus 9y ago
  Yeah, let's Trumpify that title: "JUUUGE NIM release - everybody is saying they're going to give up sex now, 'cause we're like 17 times better now! NIM version 17,000.17 is OUT and PROUD!" Accuracy and brevity, pshaaw.
  - sctb 9y ago
    Please do not post like this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - Nomentatus 9y ago
      I don't see any mention in the links that humor is to be strictly avoided. Did I miss something? I'm amused that the party I'm replying to actually insists on a more click-baity title; but chose to use humor to express that. I certainly won't again, and may not comment here again.
- shakna 9y ago
  Click the link, you'll see the changelog.
  - Safety1stClyde 9y ago
    I'm trying to contain my excitement.
- wjh_ 9y ago
  When this happens with most other posts, most people tend to not read them, not comment on them, and most definitely not shit all over them. Enough people have been interested in it for it to be voted high enough for you to see it.
- moron4hire 9y ago
  Why do you think this is an appropriate attitude? What happened to you that you are like this?
  - sctb 9y ago
    Please don't get personal like this, no matter what someone has said.
    - moron4hire 9y ago
      Trolls need personal responses. This aversion to conflict is why we have a shit internet. I am asking the person to introspect to maybe answer for themselves why they are so awful.
      - sctb 9y ago
        I thought “Don't feed the trolls” was the idea?

veidr 9y ago

To paraphrase Steve Jobs: "Oh yeah? What the fuck have you done that's so awesome that you now feel like you can just make some snide, zero-value comment to shit on a new release of one of the more interesting new programming languages of the past few years, Clyde?" This kind of news, and discussion of it, is exactly what this website is for.

sbuttgereit 9y ago
This. Though I'm woefully under-skilled to offer much comment on these sorts of stories, it is exactly this sort of story and the comments of much smarter people than me that attract me to read HN. Really, I wish it were more of this sort of thing and less politics and other non-tech miscellanea.
- Safety1stClyde 9y ago
  Yeah, it's hard to contain one's excitement when one hears that version 0.17.0 of a project has just been released.

sctb 9y ago

Can you please just not comment when this is all you have to say? Comments on HN should be civil and substantive.

Safety1stClyde 9y ago
This post about yet another "new programming language" reaching a milestone consisting of random digits was upvoted so that it reached the front page of your web site, and my pointing that out resulted in my not only being downvoted but revenge-downvoted across several other posts. If you wish to improve your web site's content, a more valuable service toward that end would be to excise the spammers promoting the above nonsense content, and revenge-downvoting across answers, rather than criticising me for pointing out that this emperor is not wearing any clothes.
- sctb 9y ago
  We do penalize minor release articles, and there are software protections against abusive downvoting. What we need from you is no more comments like these. It's not criticism, they simply break the guidelines.
  - Safety1stClyde 9y ago
    The spamming of this site by these kinds of projects has gone far enough that it has now been parodied in a television series: https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/6cy0x3/the_guys_conspiring_in_reddit_vote_rigging/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/6cy0x3/th... Quote on the whiteboard by the character "Gilfoyle" in "Silicon Valley": HACKER NEWS!!! Get friends to upvote One would have to be extremely naive to think that anyone except friends of the authors would upvote a link to a changelog for version 0.17.0 of a "new programming language" on this site.