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I know HN discourages these kinds of meta-discussions, and not to denigrate Sirupsen's post in any way, but how did this get so many upvotes? (Currently 16 in
by spokey 16y ago
I know HN discourages these kinds of meta-discussions, and not to denigrate Sirupsen's post in any way, but how did this get so many upvotes? (Currently 16 in 45 minutes, with only one comment.)
This post basically says: Bash, VIM, Dropbox. Not a bad set of recommendations, but I'm surprised this falls under the heading of "anything good hackers would find interesting".
- silentbicycle 16y agoPerhaps because it has Ruby in the title? It doesn't really have much content to it. A post with more info on integrating debugging (or whatever issues are relevant for Ruby) would be more interesting than just saying, "Vim and dropbox".
- petercooper 16y agoFWIW, I've made posts here that have been voted highly and attracted zero comments. I think the content-to-votes ratio is OK to question, but getting X votes in Y minutes or the number of comments isn't really a reliable indicator on HN, IMHO.