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Wow, Seattle's been all over HN the last couple days. Not that I mind, but it's a little strange.
by moonka 9y ago
Wow, Seattle's been all over HN the last couple days. Not that I mind, but it's a little strange.
- zitterbewegung 9y agoMaybe someone ordered a bunch of submarines (stories). http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- mattnewton 9y agoIf so, they are doing a poor job: this makes Seattle look less interesting to me. It is a great slice of the times though
- Turing_Machine 9y ago> If so, they are doing a poor job: this makes Seattle look less interesting to me. Perhaps not. It could be Portland doing it. :-)
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoHe's not wrong, but Jesus it's depressing to read 12 years later: > the readers are leaving, and they're not coming back. Why? I think the main reason is that the writing online is more honest. Ahahaha oh God. > Whatever its flaws, the writing you find online is authentic. It's not mystery meat cooked up out of scraps of pitch letters and press releases, and pressed into molds of zippy journalese. It's people writing what they think. "The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made."
- usr1106 9y agoRight, noticed the same. How many programmers are there in Redmond? Some of them might be HN contributors...