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> In the spirit of full disclosure, I’m a newb to Redis. My > knowledge is basically the contents of this post (at the > time of writing). I don’t use it in
by apl 16y ago
> In the spirit of full disclosure, I’m a newb to Redis. My
> knowledge is basically the contents of this post (at the
> time of writing). I don’t use it in production (yet).
> Likewise I’m no expert in AK-47s (I’ve never even fired
> one) or guns in general. I’m aware via notoriety alone.
Fantastic quote. So you're hardly familiar with either component of your simile, but you'll post it anyway? I really don't expect New Yorker-esque editing from bloggers, but that's simply not very substantial writing.
No wonder people make fun of the so-called "NoSQL movement."
- mrkurt 16y agoExpert knowledge of an AK-47 wouldn't have improved the post and he managed to expose me to some bits of Redis that I wasn't previously aware of. That makes it more substantial than half the shit that ends up on Hacker News. :)
- sfphotoarts 16y agoI thought it was a well written article that was a good read. Possibly the author was demonstrating humility rather than ego.
- techiferous 16y agoConsider the blog post a conversation starter. You don't have to be an expert in a topic before you can start a useful online discussion about it.
- zach 16y agoYes, bloggers talk about things they just learned about rather than something they're 360-degree experts about. But that's good. It helps them -- it reinforces their learning and they certainly find out if they got something wrong -- and it helps us -- readers see a lot of articles pop up right when people are interested in and passionate about learning something, rather than months later when they know it all and have moved on. Early blogging is quick iteration of knowledge. Blog about something you learned today, not years ago.
- mxavier 16y agoYour last sentence is pretty flawed/ad-hominem. That being said, I do agree in the sense that the comment at the end of the post annoyed me and degraded the value of the article. Certainly, blog about whatever you want, but if you just picked up some new technology, don't write a link bait title and post it on HN. HN needs more breathless hype articles like I need a bullet in the head.
- dschobel 16y agoIt still has value according to the two-step HN algorithm of fact-finding. step 1. Someone posts something (anything will do) on a blog step 2. HN tears it apart and reconstitutes it with some decent approximation of truth and usually a fair bit of insight. Basically, the source content is just the jumping off point. The blogs serve as a focal point for directing the HN hive's attention for a while. You could post a story titled "Sarah Palin is more influential than the Pope but less influential than the iPhone" and fill it with lolcat pictures and still get an interesting discussion here. Why? Because smart people are awesome.
- __Joker 16y agoVery true, thats why most of the time I spent time reading the hacker news discussion rather than the original link.