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No, it isn't, and that "throwaway" account has hundreds of karma. Also, wasn't your comment here longer a second ago? I seem to recall it having a bit on "or s

by caslon 4y ago

No, it isn't, and that "throwaway" account has hundreds of karma. Also, wasn't your comment here longer a second ago? I seem to recall it having a bit on "or some other form of memory safety," which proves the point.

lifthrasiir 4y ago
> No, it isn't, and that "throwaway" account has hundreds of karma. That account was registered only two months ago, enough to be classified as such. And actually the account seems to have garnered karma mostly from cryptocurrency criticism (which is a surefire way to get or lose lots of karma in HN). > Also, wasn't your comment here longer a second ago? I seem to recall it having a bit on "or some other form of memory safety," which proves the point. Sorry for that, I forgot to add an intervening sentence and realized that the comment is better without the (original) second sentence. (For the context, the removed sentence was roughly "Drew could have gotten far less criticism if he had a roadmap about safety, not necessarily borrow checker but even something like sanitizers or instrumention would suffice". I originally put this sentence to show that the "safety" criticism to Hare is not just from Rust proponents, but it wouldn't work without further quantification.)
- pvg 4y ago
  That account was registered only two months ago, enough to be classified as such. And actually the account seems to have garnered karma mostly from cryptocurrency criticism (which is a surefire way to get or lose lots of karma in HN). You've been here long enough to know you can't innuendo at other users like this, however wrong they may be. Extra lame if they're not part of the conversation to begin with.
  - lifthrasiir 4y ago
    To my eyes caslon is claiming that that throwaway account is somehow representative of Rust community because it has lots of karma, and I responded with the fact that the karma most likely came from other heated debates than Rust or Hare in a short amount of time (in fact the comment in question was a passing mention for that account). I don't care about karma otherwise, you know it's nothing.
    - pvg 4y ago
      It doesn't matter, you can just say it was an individual user and isn't representative of the Rust community. Going all Bureau of User Investigations is explicitly disallowed cause otherwise that'd be half the messageboard.
      - lifthrasiir 4y ago
        Fair, some users are (for the lack of better expression) more representative than other users and my intention was to show that the latter was the case, but I may have gone too far.

by caslon 4y ago

lifthrasiir 4y ago

> No, it isn't, and that "throwaway" account has hundreds of karma. That account was registered only two months ago, enough to be classified as such. And actually the account seems to have garnered karma mostly from cryptocurrency criticism (which is a surefire way to get or lose lots of karma in HN). > Also, wasn't your comment here longer a second ago? I seem to recall it having a bit on "or some other form of memory safety," which proves the point. Sorry for that, I forgot to add an intervening sentence and realized that the comment is better without the (original) second sentence. (For the context, the removed sentence was roughly "Drew could have gotten far less criticism if he had a roadmap about safety, not necessarily borrow checker but even something like sanitizers or instrumention would suffice". I originally put this sentence to show that the "safety" criticism to Hare is not just from Rust proponents, but it wouldn't work without further quantification.)

pvg 4y ago
That account was registered only two months ago, enough to be classified as such. And actually the account seems to have garnered karma mostly from cryptocurrency criticism (which is a surefire way to get or lose lots of karma in HN). You've been here long enough to know you can't innuendo at other users like this, however wrong they may be. Extra lame if they're not part of the conversation to begin with.
- lifthrasiir 4y ago
  To my eyes caslon is claiming that that throwaway account is somehow representative of Rust community because it has lots of karma, and I responded with the fact that the karma most likely came from other heated debates than Rust or Hare in a short amount of time (in fact the comment in question was a passing mention for that account). I don't care about karma otherwise, you know it's nothing.
  - pvg 4y ago
    It doesn't matter, you can just say it was an individual user and isn't representative of the Rust community. Going all Bureau of User Investigations is explicitly disallowed cause otherwise that'd be half the messageboard.
    - lifthrasiir 4y ago
      Fair, some users are (for the lack of better expression) more representative than other users and my intention was to show that the latter was the case, but I may have gone too far.