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So yes, this is a rant. I came here because it annoyed me to see Carl and his ilk go unchallenged but I don't really care about Saini's book beyond the fact tha

by xyzzyz 7y ago

So yes, this is a rant. I came here because it annoyed me to see Carl and his ilk go unchallenged but I don't really care about Saini's book beyond the fact that most professionals I know liked it. If you want something more constructive I can give you my Venmo. Again, I can't help but marvel at your gall of accusing me of arguing in bad faith.

throwaway2355 7y ago
Marvel away. Meanwhile, Carl is still a hack that's been exposed multiple times, as were many of his buddies, and you conveniently forgot to answer to that.
- dang 7y ago
  Please don't do ideological flamewars, or other flamewars, on HN. It's not what this site is for. If you'd please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended, we'd be grateful. Since you work in this field your perspective is welcome on HN, as is anyone's perspective on the field that they work in. But please share information in the spirit of curious conversation and helping others learn - not smiting enemies. Internet enemy-smiting is the night in which all cows are black: it makes all the discussion the same. Worse, it evokes worse from others, making this place deteriorate in a way that we're trying to stave off if possible: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20stave&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Also, could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is also in the site guidelines. You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20community%20identity https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
dang 7y ago
Please don't do ideological flamewars, or other flamewars, on HN. We've had to ask you this before, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

by xyzzyz 7y ago

throwaway2355 7y ago

Marvel away. Meanwhile, Carl is still a hack that's been exposed multiple times, as were many of his buddies, and you conveniently forgot to answer to that.

dang 7y ago
Please don't do ideological flamewars, or other flamewars, on HN. It's not what this site is for. If you'd please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended, we'd be grateful. Since you work in this field your perspective is welcome on HN, as is anyone's perspective on the field that they work in. But please share information in the spirit of curious conversation and helping others learn - not smiting enemies. Internet enemy-smiting is the night in which all cows are black: it makes all the discussion the same. Worse, it evokes worse from others, making this place deteriorate in a way that we're trying to stave off if possible: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20stave&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Also, could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is also in the site guidelines. You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20community%20identity https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

dang 7y ago

Please don't do ideological flamewars, or other flamewars, on HN. We've had to ask you this before, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html