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>They’re perfectly up front and obvious about it, not hiding anything. Wtf, this is the opposite of "up front." You had to poke around and figure it out yourse
by carlisle_ 7y ago
>They’re perfectly up front and obvious about it, not hiding anything.
Wtf, this is the opposite of "up front." You had to poke around and figure it out yourself based on a suspicion. Up front means that they just tell you, no figuring out required.
- lghh 7y ago"Reading the link" isn't quite poking around, is it?
- overeater 7y agoYou don't know what it is from just reading the link. And even that itself is not upfront -- browsers have been trying to hide the URL for a while now. What if you read it on Google AMP? I agree with the other commenter that this is misleading.
- lghh 7y agoI should have been more clear - reading the content of the link.
- carlisle_ 7y agoYou mean at the very end of the article after they finish trashing GA?
- SkyMarshal 7y agoNo, just read the TOC. The last two items, especially the one that says “Give Plausible a Try”, make it clear when combined with the big “Plausible” logo in the top left of the website (or the “plausible.io” domain you can see in the HN submission title) that this is a blog post by the company Plausible listing reasons why their major competitor is flawed and advocating their own product as an alternative. You don’t have to read to the end of the article to know this, it’s communicated in the TOC at the very start. They could hardly be more transparent if they tried. This is not a submarine article, people are knee-jerk making this into something it isn’t. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- SkyMarshal 7y agoI didn't poke around. I knew by the time I finished reading the Table of Contents, before I even got to the content. Even if they had said in their very first sentence of the content "Disclaimer: We are a competitor to Google Analytics", I would have already known before that. It's blatantly obvious, they didn't need to spoon feed me. This isn't some submarine article. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- carlisle_ 7y agoYour comment reminds me of this: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/ >"I am THE ONE. You only need to know me. I am better than all of you."
- SkyMarshal 7y agoAll the examples given in that article are people belittling complex programming tasks. But this was just a simple a reading comprehension and logical deduction task, not even remotely in the same league. But maybe to you this was a similarly difficult task, so I apologize if I was being insulting by belittling it. Sorry!
- carlisle_ 7y agoWow what a pretentious person you are.