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Speaking of iteration, iterating over the most popular replies to this tells me that the points which hit home enough to drive engagement are replies to the eff
by RNCTX 5y ago
Speaking of iteration, iterating over the most popular replies to this tells me that the points which hit home enough to drive engagement are replies to the effect of:
1) "No, my 37 day interview process is good, actually."
2) "Rails sucks"
3) "Making a thing people would want to use is a bad idea."
4) (two long threads) "The 10x programmer exists, I saw him once at a con."
5) "No one cares what anyone else thinks."
HN really does represent the finest that the largest corporations have to offer. The proof is in the pudding.
- shoo 5y agoThere's also a path-dependent local optimisation aspect to HN comment threads. All things equal, threads that are higher up the page during the right time window get more eyeballs and more engagement, which might encourage people to hang their replies off the currently-popular thread. If we reran the "experiment" under essentially the same conditions we might find that a different bunch of responses get the most engagement.
- RNCTX 5y agoIt's still reflective of reality though! If I know one thing from working for large corporations, it's that whatever is talked about the most will never change.
- therealdrag0 5y agoAand there’s a segue back to the current discussion. There was a thread about “people don’t actually like innovation”. :)