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Like everyone else in this thread, I'm of the belief you don't come to the conclusion that tech is 'cool' without some ideological underpinning. And, in an open

Like everyone else in this thread, I'm of the belief you don't come to the conclusion that tech is 'cool' without some ideological underpinning. And, in an open forum those underpinnings will be debated. I suspect, that by "political bickering" you really mean "ideologies I don't agree with" (much like most people clamoring for a past civility that never existed). If you want an echo chamber, plenty of sites are around from that; they'll welcome you.

mindcrime 8y ago
Like everyone else in this thread, I'm of the belief you don't come to the conclusion that tech is 'cool' without some ideological underpinning. I'm pretty sure not everybody here believes that. I suspect, that by "political bickering" you really mean "ideologies I don't agree with" Your suspicion is incorrect. If you want an echo chamber, Who said anything about wanting an echo chamber?
- repolfx 8y ago
  Well, "cool" tech is very subjective and often based in some sort of tech ideology. Is Golang "cool"? I don't think so, but a lot of people do. HN is flooded with posts like "Show HN: I made a web server in Go/Rust/Erlang". Clap clap, good for you. I find these articles quite worthless but leave them alone because hey, it's not like disk space on HN servers is a particularly limited resource. If some people want to talk about someone else's web server or yet-another-js-framework, that's no problem by me. However, much of this sort of cheerleading is motivated by what can only be called ideology. For example, "Java is uncool and Oracle is bad" + "Rust is elite and Mozilla is cool" is a very common sort of opinion on Hacker News but this is really nothing to do with the technologies themselves. It's more based on a feeling that overtly wanting to make lots of money by owning IP is dirty and immoral, whereas giving it away for free and claiming you're motivated by an inherent love of openess and webbyness is pure and moral. This is really just politics in disguise.

mindcrime 8y ago

Like everyone else in this thread, I'm of the belief you don't come to the conclusion that tech is 'cool' without some ideological underpinning. I'm pretty sure not everybody here believes that. I suspect, that by "political bickering" you really mean "ideologies I don't agree with" Your suspicion is incorrect. If you want an echo chamber, Who said anything about wanting an echo chamber?

repolfx 8y ago
Well, "cool" tech is very subjective and often based in some sort of tech ideology. Is Golang "cool"? I don't think so, but a lot of people do. HN is flooded with posts like "Show HN: I made a web server in Go/Rust/Erlang". Clap clap, good for you. I find these articles quite worthless but leave them alone because hey, it's not like disk space on HN servers is a particularly limited resource. If some people want to talk about someone else's web server or yet-another-js-framework, that's no problem by me. However, much of this sort of cheerleading is motivated by what can only be called ideology. For example, "Java is uncool and Oracle is bad" + "Rust is elite and Mozilla is cool" is a very common sort of opinion on Hacker News but this is really nothing to do with the technologies themselves. It's more based on a feeling that overtly wanting to make lots of money by owning IP is dirty and immoral, whereas giving it away for free and claiming you're motivated by an inherent love of openess and webbyness is pure and moral. This is really just politics in disguise.