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This refutation of a book I've never heard of is not particularly interesting to me.
by TheSOB88 16y ago
This refutation of a book I've never heard of is not particularly interesting to me.
- javert 16y agoI strongly suspect this only made it to the front page because somebody voted multiple times with different accounts.
- hugh3 16y agoI've heard of it because there was a discussion about it last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1522325 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1522325 I was pretty skeptical of the book's claims, at least as they were summarized in that thread. So this review was interesting to me. (I had nothing to do with the submission though.) I still recommend The Red Queen by Matt Ridley to anyone interested in this subject.
- TheSOB88 16y agoThanks.
- _delirium 16y agoI could go down the front page making comments like that, I suppose? "This collaborative filtering plugin for a framework I don't use is not particularly interesting to me", or perhaps "This GUI elements library for an Adobe tool I don't use is not particularly interesting to me". People have heard of different things!
- robryan 16y agoI find it worse when something random about a technology you would never read apart from it being an article on HN is interesting to me. I've spent a whole heap of time reading stuff about Haskell(for one example) that is posted here but I haven't used it and don't know if I'll ever get around to learning it.