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Looks green to me Also, front page? Wow. Must be a slow day on Hacker News, huh? I'm honored, but I don't really think the article has the "substance" to ju
by choffstein 15y ago
Looks green to me
Also, front page? Wow. Must be a slow day on Hacker News, huh? I'm honored, but I don't really think the article has the "substance" to justify a front page ranking.
- runevault 15y agoClojure articles seem to draw a lot of upvotes by default, to the point of silliness. I love Clojure but it's kind of bizarre how fast they draw upvotes here, since it isn't a Clojure site.
- JoachimSchipper 15y agopg is a bit of a Messiah to some Lisp folks. (One of the few who's had commercial success, wrote On Lisp, kept the dream alive...) HN also likes cool new tech. I'm not surprised that people like Clojure, although I agree that some more restraint wouldn't be bad.
- swannodette 15y agoHN is a Lisp friendly place and many fluffy Lisp related things make it to the front page on HN, not just Clojure (and this article is not nearly as fluffy as some of the things that make it :) But I agree, it would be nice if people submitting Clojure articles would submit meatier stuff. Same could be said of the recent Node.js HN contingent. On a related note, one thing I've noticed is that the Node.js troupe seems to flag negative Node.js content - this kind of cargo-cult is a bad sign of where things are going on HN IMO.
- runevault 15y agoAgreed on both counts. I truly love Clojure (and I use your Enlive tutorial any time I need a refresher) but if it's nothing new why does it need a hojillion upvotes. I'll be curious to see what the effect of pg's changes are on such issues, if anything. I do wonder if seperating saved stories from upvotes might help, since some people may see clojure and use upvote to flag it for later reading.
- waterlesscloud 15y agoPart of the issue is that saving an article/site for later perusal is the same as upvoting it. Ideally the two actions could be separated.