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In the meantime, check out Substrate <https://src-bin.com/substrate/ https://src-bin.com/substrate/> and don’t worry about waiting for AWS to improve.
by rcrowley 4y ago
In the meantime, check out Substrate <https://src-bin.com/substrate/ https://src-bin.com/substrate/> and don’t worry about waiting for AWS to improve.
- metadat 4y agoMr. Crowley, did you forget to mention / disclose your association and financial interest tied to this product? For context, https://www.linkedin.com/in/richarddcrowley https://www.linkedin.com/in/richarddcrowley indicates he works there.
- benatkin 4y agoIt's a bit different of a situation from the usual product recommendations because the domain of the article and link in the comment is the same.
- chronotis 4y agoSeems relevant to me. The article is from your organization, and that information is something I wouldn't have known if not for the prior commenter's comment.
- hatware 4y agoWhat a weird comment.
- abrookewood 4y agoKind of .. I think it's good that people are encouraged to disclose their interests on HN as a matter of course.
- hatware 4y agoA DM is reasonable. Calling someone out in public like that is childish.
- JimDabell 4y agoThere aren‘t any DMs on Hacker News, and if he didn’t post that comment I would have thought it was a disinterested commenter recommending something they had used, not somebody who works on the project. The cultural norm here is to disclose when you are recommending your own product and it’s not childish to point out when people fail to do that, it’s reinforcing that cultural norm.
- hatware 4y ago> There aren‘t any DMs on Hacker News Good thing they... (checks notes) ...know exactly who made the post and can reach out to them on LinkedIn or email them. Cultural norms are reinforced by good examples, there's nothing good about snippy public comments. Reaching out to them privately isn't hard, and, dare I say it: is more inclusive. I don't think I need to explain the origin of the word assume.
- Akronymus 4y ago> , there's nothing good about snippy public comments. It didn't seem snippy to me. "Why aren't you disclosing your ties" would be IMO. The message that was actually posted seemed quite diplomatic.
- PebblesHD 4y agoIf they had disclosed their involvement in their profile at least I could give them the benefit of the doubt but in this case, like the other commenters, I assumed he had used the tool as a customer and had a positive experience, not that he was literally the founder of the group making the tool. That’s not to say his opinion is not wanted, just that the potential bias should be made transparent.
- hatware 4y agoIt's a single comment on one hackernews thread that is already buried. You're bikeshedding.
- porker 4y agoHaving people disclose if they work for/have a vested interest in what they recommend sets HN apart from other communities. It gives me a bit more confidence that I can trust what people recommend here and isn't just hidden marketing.
- rcrowley 4y agoThe same link’s in the second sentence of the article. But, sure, I forgot.
- smcleod 4y agoFar out - that website looks dodgy as. What on earth is going on with its fonts - it looks like a newspaper vomited onto the screen.
- fazfq 4y agoIt looks completely normal to me?
- smcleod 4y agoI thought it was just on my phone, but it's goofy as on the desktop too, this is what it looks like for me in Firefox: https://imgur.com/a/o0vGIq8 https://imgur.com/a/o0vGIq8
- x86_64Ubuntu 4y agoIt looks like it's a super un-Javascripted website. It's only about 2.8MB to load when looking in Chrome Developer view.
- rcrowley 4y agoIt’s set in Computer Modern, the font Donald Knuth designed for TeX and which you most often encounter in academic papers.