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I'll take that! Now, before yinz flip out, you asked a question, and I will give you my honest answer. The way I see it. No fluff. This was supposed to be the
by Annatar 6y ago
I'll take that!
Now, before yinz flip out, you asked a question, and I will give you my honest answer. The way I see it. No fluff.
This was supposed to be the site where the creme de la creme, the best of the best, Silicon Valley stalwarts discuss the cutting edge of computer science.
Instead, n-gate.com correctly identified that it's a web site where "hacker news" with no formal education in computer science marvel like a turkey marvels its own excrement when they discover some tried and true technology. Oh, and they keep marveling at wheel reinventions. And you know what? One could say that it gets tiresome after a while, but it's far worse: it's deeply demoralizing, and makes those of us passionate about computer science deeply resent the information technology industry. And then we try to tell you how things should work, and instead of asking questions, yinz just start arguing and pushing reinvented, completely unnecessary wheels like "Kubernetes", "Docker", "Ansible", "Linux" because it's easier to mess around than warm up the chair and learn or listen to experience. The people on this website made me hate computers, because if this is the best our industry has to offer, it's devastating. So I understand where pjmlp is coming from. It's why I've all but withdrawn from here and don't bother posting anything any more.
- laumars 6y agoSQLite has been around 20 years and designed to solve the kinds of problems being discussed. It’s older than git and nearly as old as SSH! So I don’t think it’s fair to brush this conversation with the same brush as those who advocate using Kubernetes for running a couple daemons.
- Annatar 6y agoThis was in no way meant to be a critique on SQLite; SQLite is a phenomenal, high quality software and it is extremely useful. Why, I often use it myself and it's my first go-to database for solving all kinds of problems, or even just for simulations. I've known about and used SQLite for almost two decades now. Fantastic software, and that is rare in this day and age when most software is utter garbage. It would be so wonderful if more software were of as high a quality and as simple as SQLite... What I was answering to is the completely unwarranted criticism of pjmlp from various posters here. Not only do I find it unjust, I find it appalling. The gall...
- zdkl 6y agoThe attack isn't on `Pjmlp. I wanted to ask, as politely as possible, if he was aware that his comments consistently felt like a grumpy old man bringing nothing interesting to hacker news. `Badsectoracula made a good case (better than the subject himself) for his opinion, and honestly, I agree with it! I just wish it wasn't always phrased in such a blasé negative fashion is all I wanted to convey.
- 59nadir 6y agoThought you should know, "yinz" is extremely regional and not nearly as recognizable as other dialectal/regional words meaning the same thing. You probably have a very low hit-rate comprehension-wise using it, considering it can be replaced with more easily recognizable words, especially for foreigners (though it's far from certain that people from the US but not from Pittsburgh or thereabouts will immediately recognize it).
- Annatar 6y agoI already know all of this; there was no need to lecture me. I did it on purpose.
- usefulcat 6y agoAnd yet you apparently continue to read and post comments on HN. Without implying that you should not, I'm genuinely curious to know why you do.