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"Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor, if you didn’t know." Let me just say thank you very much for adding this sentence :) I feel like 50% of headlines on HN

by galonk 9y ago

"Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor, if you didn’t know." Let me just say thank you very much for adding this sentence :) I feel like 50% of headlines on HN are written like "New version of qx58g" and somehow none of the headline, the comments, or the linked article will give any indication what qx58g is.

stephengillie 9y ago
/s/qx58g/GenericPhrase "New version of Pandora Nexus released." Great - is this any relation to the 2 Pandoras or the several Nexuses? Does this play music on my phone or move assets into a VM? Neither, it syncs bookmarks between browsers.
- ethbro 9y ago
  > Pandora ... Nexus Eventually we're going to run out of fancy nouns.
Aloha 9y ago
Yeah. The "why do I care?" part if often missing from posts on HN. The other posts I see are the ones exclaiming "X is harmful" while often only presenting a very narrowly construed use case, that doesnt fit the norm - or making a big to do about a nothing - another trope is posts promoting YAPL (yet another programming language) and YAF (yet another framework) - without making it clear why this programming language or framework is any better than the eleventeen other ones.
mjw1007 9y ago
It's helpful, but I still had to guess whether those are tiles as in tiled rendering or tiles as in a tiled window manager. I think you have to know that Wayland uses the word "compositor" in a slightly odd way to get the right guess first.
bane 9y ago
My favorite ones are the projects with project pages that describe themselves in terms of other buzzwordy project and trend names. "Buzzy is a new rewrite of Salad using an extensible monad-free Vomit dialect based on modern neopatterns. (note you'll need FooQwang3.7.2.1-R2 extensions installed in your pillar-tab in order to use it interactively)" At least techno-babble [1] could make you feel intimidated. This word salad nonsense just makes me feel utterly lost and apathetic. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnkT6C9Ose8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnkT6C9Ose8

by galonk 9y ago

stephengillie 9y ago

/s/qx58g/GenericPhrase "New version of Pandora Nexus released." Great - is this any relation to the 2 Pandoras or the several Nexuses? Does this play music on my phone or move assets into a VM? Neither, it syncs bookmarks between browsers.

ethbro 9y ago
> Pandora ... Nexus Eventually we're going to run out of fancy nouns.

Aloha 9y ago

Yeah. The "why do I care?" part if often missing from posts on HN. The other posts I see are the ones exclaiming "X is harmful" while often only presenting a very narrowly construed use case, that doesnt fit the norm - or making a big to do about a nothing - another trope is posts promoting YAPL (yet another programming language) and YAF (yet another framework) - without making it clear why this programming language or framework is any better than the eleventeen other ones.

mjw1007 9y ago

It's helpful, but I still had to guess whether those are tiles as in tiled rendering or tiles as in a tiled window manager. I think you have to know that Wayland uses the word "compositor" in a slightly odd way to get the right guess first.

bane 9y ago

My favorite ones are the projects with project pages that describe themselves in terms of other buzzwordy project and trend names. "Buzzy is a new rewrite of Salad using an extensible monad-free Vomit dialect based on modern neopatterns. (note you'll need FooQwang3.7.2.1-R2 extensions installed in your pillar-tab in order to use it interactively)" At least techno-babble [1] could make you feel intimidated. This word salad nonsense just makes me feel utterly lost and apathetic. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnkT6C9Ose8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnkT6C9Ose8