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Usually I ignore comments like this, but the author of the post is actually coming through and responding to comments, and I appreciate that. You're leveling t

Usually I ignore comments like this, but the author of the post is actually coming through and responding to comments, and I appreciate that. You're leveling the criticism that since his blog deals with a niche that he should drop to a mailing list. Seriously? HN has been developing a bad reputation, and nitpicky comments presented without decorum create an incentive for people to stay away. It's perfectly reasonably for the author of a blog post to assume that people familiar with his blog, his usual readers, will know what's up. It's not too unreasonable to suggest that the author provide a summary if it's not clear what the piece or blog is about, except in this case it is described on the blog's About page on the list of open source projects. Redefining all of these things in every post would get annoying very fast. It's reasonable to say that people working with statistical and data computing are likely as aware of Pandas as a web developer is aware of several of the largest JavaScript libraries.

phaemon 9y ago
> You're leveling the criticism No, I'm not. I'm offering a suggestion. You're being absurdly thin-skinned on someone else's behalf. > Redefining all of these things in every post would get annoying very fast. So put it in a header so it automatically appears at the top of every post. As I suggested originally. This is simply good practise for any project where you want to attract people who haven't heard of your software before. If you don't care about these people, then a mailing list is a better idea so you can hide it away from everyone. Again, just a suggestion...
- Blackthorn 9y ago
  Maybe he doesn't need to attract people who haven't heard of his software before because his software is literally the default for data science. It's like complaining that someone didn't define what jQuery is. > No, I'm not. I'm offering a suggestion. You're being absurdly thin-skinned on someone else's behalf No, we're being annoyed at the crazy level of bike shedding that hacker news is starting to see.

phaemon 9y ago

> You're leveling the criticism No, I'm not. I'm offering a suggestion. You're being absurdly thin-skinned on someone else's behalf. > Redefining all of these things in every post would get annoying very fast. So put it in a header so it automatically appears at the top of every post. As I suggested originally. This is simply good practise for any project where you want to attract people who haven't heard of your software before. If you don't care about these people, then a mailing list is a better idea so you can hide it away from everyone. Again, just a suggestion...

Blackthorn 9y ago
Maybe he doesn't need to attract people who haven't heard of his software before because his software is literally the default for data science. It's like complaining that someone didn't define what jQuery is. > No, I'm not. I'm offering a suggestion. You're being absurdly thin-skinned on someone else's behalf No, we're being annoyed at the crazy level of bike shedding that hacker news is starting to see.