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A tweet from a middle manager changing jobs doesn’t seem at all newsworthy. Are people reading more into this than they should be?

CiPHPerCoder 9y ago
lcamtuf isn't exactly just "a middle manager" Is it newsworthy? Not in the scandalous sense, no.
kerng 9y ago
A lot of folks in Hackernews have interest in security relevant topics also - Its one of the reasons I am here, so I appreciate quickly reading this and move on. Its a good indicator that HN is the right community for me. :)
- lawnchair_larry 9y ago
  I too am interested in security related topics. I don’t know what that has to do with this tweet. High profile contributors to the community changing jobs is pretty common, so I’m not sure why a tweet about this particular case is noteworthy.
  - CiPHPerCoder 9y ago
    Consider for a moment that Michal Zalewski might simply be held in esteem by the HN community, and therefore his leaving Google after 11 years is personally significant to many HN users. Is that too far out for you to believe?
    - lawnchair_larry 9y ago
      I think highly of him as well, and am probably much more familiar with his work than just about everybody upvoting. I commented because it’s not obvious to me why this tweet would be front page news when folks of roughly similar influence and visibility change jobs all the time, and we don’t seem to be submitting and upvoting their tweets. Maybe soon we will report on what Dan Kaminsky ate for breakfast or which car Charlie Miller was spotted driving!
tptacek 9y ago
You're getting downvoted for calling Zalewski a "middle manager", but your point about this not being front-page newsworthy is well taken.
lossolo 9y ago
If it would not be newsworthy then it wouldn't be upvoted enough to get on first page on HN. It's newsworthy for me that's why I upvoted it and it seems 150+ more people thinks the same. If something is not newsworthy for you dosen't mean it's not newsworthy for others.

CiPHPerCoder 9y ago

lcamtuf isn't exactly just "a middle manager" Is it newsworthy? Not in the scandalous sense, no.

kerng 9y ago

A lot of folks in Hackernews have interest in security relevant topics also - Its one of the reasons I am here, so I appreciate quickly reading this and move on. Its a good indicator that HN is the right community for me. :)

lawnchair_larry 9y ago
I too am interested in security related topics. I don’t know what that has to do with this tweet. High profile contributors to the community changing jobs is pretty common, so I’m not sure why a tweet about this particular case is noteworthy.
- CiPHPerCoder 9y ago
  Consider for a moment that Michal Zalewski might simply be held in esteem by the HN community, and therefore his leaving Google after 11 years is personally significant to many HN users. Is that too far out for you to believe?
  - lawnchair_larry 9y ago
    I think highly of him as well, and am probably much more familiar with his work than just about everybody upvoting. I commented because it’s not obvious to me why this tweet would be front page news when folks of roughly similar influence and visibility change jobs all the time, and we don’t seem to be submitting and upvoting their tweets. Maybe soon we will report on what Dan Kaminsky ate for breakfast or which car Charlie Miller was spotted driving!

tptacek 9y ago

You're getting downvoted for calling Zalewski a "middle manager", but your point about this not being front-page newsworthy is well taken.

lossolo 9y ago

If it would not be newsworthy then it wouldn't be upvoted enough to get on first page on HN. It's newsworthy for me that's why I upvoted it and it seems 150+ more people thinks the same. If something is not newsworthy for you dosen't mean it's not newsworthy for others.