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Ugh, I really dislike articles that are about to tell you the key idea(s) at the beginning then veer off into a personal interest story before doing the reveal.
by colordrops 6y ago
Ugh, I really dislike articles that are about to tell you the key idea(s) at the beginning then veer off into a personal interest story before doing the reveal. It's enough to get me to quit the article.
- Koshkin 6y agoTo be fair, judging by the title this is indeed a personal interest story. (Edit: It is another thing that way too many popular articles disguise themselves as personal stories as though assuming that more readers will be attracted to a tabloid kind of piece than to the subject itself; the problem may be that most subjects are old and generally not interesting any more, whereas new personal stories appear every day!)
- zitterbewegung 6y agoIn college I took a reading class for quantum computation . The thing I learned about reading anything is reading the abstract and the ending and then reading the middle part if you find it interesting.
- dang 6y agoOk, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
- j88439h84 6y agoIt is a substantive comment about the presentation of the subject matter.
- colordrops 6y agoI see comments on how articles or websites are presented all the time, didn't realize it was disallowed. Apologies.
- dang 6y agoThanks—appreciated.