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“ I think you are right that HN is not the right venue. A lot of what has kept it functional for over a decade is the focus on tech.” Exactly this, because tec
by bluesign 6y ago
“ I think you are right that HN is not the right venue. A lot of what has kept it functional for over a decade is the focus on tech.”
Exactly this, because tech discussion doesn’t usually split audience 50/50 and audience is usually more scientific.
When I am outlier with my comments, I can see maybe I am missing something. I am learning something useful everyday.
- mercer 6y ago> Exactly this, because tech discussion doesn’t usually split audience 50/50 and audience is usually more scientific. I'll have you know that vim is best, tabs are better than spaces, Vue is better than React, Microsoft - on balance - made the (tech) world a better place, everything should be full-stack js SPA's with server-side rendering, Prototype.js was better than jQuery, AI is only true AI when it is conscious, CSS-in-JS is an abomination, json needs to allow for comments and trailing commas, static typing is superior, Linus Torvalds should be nicer, microservices are the future, and significant whitespace is a good idea.
- bluesign 6y agoBut we are not ending with this kind of discussions here (even when we do it is discussed like why vim is better, why MS is good/bad etc) thats the point. Like if you show me some examples from top 100 today, that is splitting audience 50/50, I think would be better.
- mercer 6y agoI was not being entirely serious, but my point was that even when we discuss tech we're often seriously split, and often over silly reasons. And very often the resulting discussion doesn't really fare much better in finding agreement than non-tech discussions do. At least that's been my experience.
- sameerds 6y agoI stopped reading after the first claim about vim. I wish I had the ability to downvote!
- mercer 6y agoI'm actually more of an Emacs with Vim keybindings person :P